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Rostral large, grooved behind, with several small scales behind it. 

 Pupil round ; length S-S^ inches. Colour blackish, with brown 

 mottlings. Sometimes a white line from the back of each eye to 

 shoulder; grey beneath. 



In the moist forest of Wynaad, found under stones in the day 

 time." 



G. ornatus. Bed. 1. c. s. 

 " Head and body covered with fine granular scales, some of 

 those on the latter being enlarged about four times, but not 

 spinous. Tail without any enlarged scales or spines. Some of 

 the sub-caudals enlarged. Belly with about 34 rows of nearly 

 round scales. Prseanal pores seven, in front of the prseanal 

 region. Opening of the ear small. Pupil round. Seven upper 

 and seven lower labials. Median lower labial large, narrow and 

 square behind, with one plate behind it, and two plates between 

 it and the first lower labials. Length three inches, of which the 

 tail is one and a half. Of a brown colour with an indistinct row 

 of white, black edged spots down the centre of the back, a white 

 band, black edged anteriorly across the neck, just in front of the 

 shoulders. A white line through the lower part of the lower 

 labials which extends to beyond the ear, but not to the cross 

 band on the nape. A similar white band from the cleft of the 

 mouth to the ear. A die-shaped white mark on the centre of 

 the head between the eyes and a large Y-shaped white mark on 

 the posterior part of the head which has a black spot in the 

 lower part of it and is joined on each side by a white line which 

 proceeds from the eye. In a single female specimen the band 

 across the nape and the black spot in front of it are conspicuous, 

 but the other markings are faint or obsolete. South TinneveUy 

 hills at no elevation, under rock, in dry jungles." 



G. Beddomei Theob. 



G. marmoratus, Beddome. Mad. Monthly Jour. Medl. 

 Scien., 1870, p. 31. (Prceoccupied.) 

 " Of stout form, body and tail coarsely granular, some of the 

 scales enlarged, but not spinous ; of a dark colour almost black, 



