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respectively are perfectly equal, and close together. All tlie claws are well 

 developed, lying between enlarged scales, at the sides and above, but they 

 are not retractile. A few slightly enlarged scales above the anus, superseded 

 by two pahs of pores, close together, and forming an angle. 



General colour above greyish brown, very densely marbled and spotted 

 with dark brown, with some indistinct, undulating, whitish cross bands on 

 the body, margined on the anterior edges with blackish brown ; a somewhat 

 indistinct dark band from the nostril through the eye to the ear ; front and 

 hind edges of the eye white ; labials spotted and speckled with brown ; below 

 whitish. 



Length of body nearly two inches ; tail imperfect, only about one inch 

 long, slightly swollen at the base. 



Sab. — The single specimen from which the above description is taken 

 was sent to me by Mr. W. A. Lawder, District Engineer of Kamaon ; it 

 was obtained in the neighbourhood of Almorah. 



Cantor says, when speaking of Oymnod. pulchellus (Joum. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1847, vol. svi, p. 633) that there are two new Gymnodactyli preserved 

 in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, one marked P. lunatus, Blyth, based 

 upon one specimen from Midnapore and two from Chaibassa,* the other, 

 a nondescript species from Almorah, Gymnodactylus nebulosus, Blyth, MSS., 

 allied to Cyrtodactylus marmoratus, Gray. I am not acquainted with any 

 further notice as to the second species indicated, nor have I been able to find 

 the specimen itself among the Society's collections ; it is also not mentioned 

 in Theobald's Catalogue. Under these circumstances it is of course impos- 

 sible to accept the suggested name for the present species, particularly also as 

 Major Beddome described already a quite distinct species from near Yizaga- 

 patam under the name G. nebulosus (Madras Joum. Med. Sc, for 1870). 



I may also at this opportunity mention that Beddome's name G. 

 onaeulatus, pubhshed in the same Journal, must be replaced by another 

 one, there having been a G. onaeulatus described by Steindachner already 

 in 1866 (Novara Kept. p. 16). A similar change is required with regard to 

 Beddome's Gymn. marmoratus (M. J. M. Sc, 1870, p. 31), there having 

 been a species described under the same name by Bum. and Bibron already 

 in 1836 (Herp. Gen., Ill, p. 426). 



Fam. AGAMID^J. 

 Japaltika vabiegata, Gray. 



Gunther, Eept. of India, p. 133. 



Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 164. 



This species has the power of greatly changing its colour. In some speci- 

 mens (irrespective of sex) the irridescent green bands, in others the metallic or 



* These are to all appearance the two Eublejph. Hardiviclcii, mentioned by Theo- 

 bald on p. 32 of Cat. Eept. Asiat. Soc. Mus. 



