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spots. Beneath bluish ashy. A horse-shoe mark on the forehead 

 (Type). Other specimens are described as having five longi- 

 tudinal brown bands, regularly interrupted by white spots which 

 form 7 cross bands on the neck and trunk. Length 2-50 inches. 



Inhabits Central and Western India (Type from Jaulnah). 



In his Monograph of Indian Reptiles, page 99, Dr. Giinther refers 

 to Blyth's original description of this species (erroneously referring 

 the description to Jerdon) in a note ; appended to his dictatorial 

 assertion that " no Gecko has imbricate scales on the back," 

 though the description he quotes, distinctly describes the scales 

 as imbricate and keeled. He also takes the occasion to describe 

 Mr. Jerdon's (Blyth's) descriptions as " obscure," and generally 

 containing only "the most trivial characters." Sixteen years 

 afterwards, however. Dr. Giinther establishes his Teratolepis, for 

 the geckoid lizard in question, using the very characters which 

 Blyth had originally pointed out, and which he. Dr. Giinther, had 

 so superciliously condemned as obscure and trivial. For Dr. 

 Jerdon's own vindication of himself against Dr. Giinther's un- 

 generous, not to say unjust, criticism, see the Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History, 1865, Vol. xv, p. 416. 



Geckoella, Gray. 



Fingers and toes thick at the base, with the ends slender and 

 rather compressed. Claws five on aU feet. Pupil elliptical. No 

 prseanal or femoral pores. 



G. punctata. Gray. P. Z. S., 1867, p. 98, pi. 9. 



Back covered with minute scales, with numerous large con- 

 vex sub-trihedral tubercles. Chin shields four. Colour above 

 dark chocolate brown, under surface paler. Small white spots on 

 the temple, occiput, back and tail, those on the back, in longitu- 

 dinal rows, thoss on the tail more or less confluent into rings. 

 A single white spot on the hinder part of the occiput. 



Inhabits Ceylon. 



This genus differs from Teratolepis in the back being tubercu- 

 lar : from Eublepharis in having no prseanal pores, and in the 



