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Colour ashy gray, dark marked on the head. : 8-10 transverse 

 bands on the body, the first springing in a curve from a dark 

 stripe from the eye. Bands sometimes ill-defined or absent. Lips 

 spotted. Below, white, tinged yellow posteriorly. 



Grows to 4-00 inches (tail 2-30). 



Inhabits rocks (rarely houses) in K!ach. 

 Nearly allied to the Cingalese 0. triedrus. 



G. speciosus. Bed. Mad. Monthly Jour., Med. Scien., 1870. 

 " Of stout form, body finely granular, all the scales being of the 

 same size ; scales of the tail larger ; of a reddish brown colour, 

 with three broad white transverse bands, one across the neck, one 

 across the middle of the back, and one just in front of the hind 

 legs, each being a quarter of an inch broad, or half the width of 

 the interspaces of ground colour, and edged with black. Crown 

 of the head white, with six; reddish brown blotches, three across 

 the occipital region, the centre one of which is elongated, two 

 across the vertical region, and one on the frontal region. Belly 

 uniform whitish, chin beneath blotched or maculated. Tail with 

 four transverse white, black-edged bands as on the body. Femoral 

 or praeanal pores none. Sub-caudals not enlarged. Rostral large, 

 grooved behind, With two small plates behind it. Pupil erect 

 I shaped. Upper labials eight, two last very small. Lower 

 labials seven, medial lower labial large, pointed behind. First 

 pair of chin shields rather large, forming a suture behind the 

 medial lower labial, second pair about half the size. Total 

 length SJ inches. 



In a tope near Erode ; very rare." 



G. Kollegalensis, Bed. 1. c. s. 

 " In every respect as in Gymnodactylus speciosus, but with a 

 very difierent colouration. Ground colour pale greyish, with four 

 dark brown, 8-shaped marks edged with white, across the body, 

 and a transverse band of large spots between each marking. 

 Head with eight irregular dark brown blotches on a light ground. 

 Tail with about six 8-shaped transverse blotches becoming indis- 



