32 9ECK0NIDiE. 



Head moderate, oviform, much depressed; snout much longer 

 than the diameter of the orbit, slightly longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening ; latter very small, subovai. 

 Limbs rather long ; digits long, slender, slightly depressed at the 

 base, inf eriorly with weU-developed lameEee. Body much depressed. 

 Head and body covered with rather large, flat, round granules, 

 some of which are sUghtly enlarged [and generaUy tubercular]. 

 Kostral subpentagonal, with median cleft above ; nostril between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; ten upper and nine 

 lower labials ; mental large, triangular, a little longer than broad ; 

 two or three pairs of chin-shields, median largest and forming a 

 short suture behind the mental. Abdominal scales moderate, sub- 

 hexagonal, slightly imbricate. No femoral or prseanal pores. TaU 

 swollen, depressed, [about as long as head and body,] ringed, with 

 three enlarged blunt tubercles at each side of the ring. Grey above, 

 with darker wavy cross bands on the back. 



From snout to vent 41 mUlim. 



Head .14 „ 



Width of head 9 „ 



Fore limb 19 „ 



Hind limb 26 „ 



Ladak 

 a. 



2 ? Yarkand (?) Indian Museum [P.]. 



(One of the types of Cyrtod. yarkandmsis.) 



10. Gymnodactylus lawderanus. 



Gymnodactylus lawderanus, SioUczka, Jonrn. As. Soo. Beng. xli. 

 1872, p. 105, pi. ii. fig. 4. 



Body rather slender and elongate, depressed, covered above with 

 numerous granules intermixed with small rouadish tubercles. 

 Upper side of head equally granular, the granular scales being 

 somewhat larger on the snout. Eostral large, broad ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral, the first labial, and two nasals ; nine upper and 

 eight lower labials ; mental triangular, partially wedged in between 

 two elongate chin-shields, forming a suture below it ; each of the 

 chin-shields is followed along the labials by three other somewhat 

 rounded shields. Ear-opening small, rounded. Ventral scales 

 small. Two pairs of prseanal pores in the male, 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 E^nd hind 

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

 belo'n whitish. 



Length of body nearly 50 millim. 



Almorah. 



