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with dark bands, paler interiorly and with rather zig-zag borders. 

 Pupil elliptical. Femoral pores 16 on each thigh. 



Length, body, 275 ; tail 3-62 = 6-37 inches. 



Inhabits Martaban (Moulmein). 



Ctrtodacttlus, Gray. 

 {Tree geckoids.) 



Femoral pores in a groove. 

 C. rubidus, Blyth. 



Puellula rubida, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 1860, p. 109. 

 G. rubidMS, Blyth. Stoliczka. ' J. A. S., B., 1870, p. 165. 



Body rather depressed, covered with numerous small and also 

 larger tubercles. Tail round, with largish tubercles near the 

 base gradually diminishing in size towards the end which is 

 curled. Subcaudals not enlarged. Toes free and slender with 

 short, but sharply curved claws. Colour light brown, with a 

 fleshy tinge about the head, with a dark mark on the nape and 

 another across the shoulders. Vertex spotted, with some dark 

 streaks in front and on the sides. Body dark spotted and 

 striped. Tail cylindrical, with numerous broad blackish rings, 

 somewhat confluent below. Pupils elliptical. Prseanal pores 3-4 

 on each side. Grows to 6 inches, of which the tail exceeds 

 the body by about a fifth. 



Inhabits the Andaman islands. 



The crest and folds of skin, originally described by Blyth, 

 were the result of the strong spirits in which the type specimens 

 had been placed. Col. Tytler describes this species as holding 

 its tail up stiffly when running, an agamoid trait often seen in 

 Calotes but not in the typical Geckoids. 



C. affiAis Stoliczka is described from Pinang, J. A. S., B., 

 1870, p. 167, but has not yet been recorded frona Indian limits. 



Pentadacttlus, Oray. 



Fingers and toes with slightly dilated pneumatic undivided 

 plates at their base only. The terminal half compressed and 



