10. GYMNODACTTLTTS. 35 



the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; forehead slightly 

 concave ; ear-opening elliptical, oblique, one third to one half the 

 diameter of the eye. Body rather short, not much depressed. 

 Limbs moderate ; digits short, thick, sUghtly depressed at the base, 

 compressed at the end, inferiorly with enlarged plates. Head 

 covered with granules, which are larger on the snout ; rostral quad- 

 rangular, generally nearly twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral, the first labial, and several small scales ; nine 

 to eleven upper and seven to nine lower labials ; mental triangular ; 

 a pair of large chin-shields forming a suture behind the point of 

 the mental, surrounded by several smaller shields. Upper, surface 

 of body covered with small granules, which are uniform or inter- 

 mixed with more or less numerous, irregularly scattered, small 

 roundish keeled tubercles. Abdominal scales small, cycloid, imbri- 

 cate, smooth. No femoral nor prseanal pores. Tail cylindrical, 

 tapering, probably prehensile, covered with small imbricate smooth 

 scales largest inferiorly. Pale brownish above, variously ornate 

 with brown spots or bands becoming blackish towards their borders 

 and more or less distinctly finely margined with lighter ; all the 

 specimens have the upper surface of the head more or less marbled 

 or elegantly marked with insuliform brown spots, and a brown baud 

 passes through the eye ; the lower surfaces are whitish, the throat 

 reticulated with brown, which reticulation has a tendency to form 

 oblique lines. 



Total length 94 millim. 



Head 15-5 „ 



Width of head 11 



Body 38-5 „ 



Fore limb 18 



Hind limb 24 



Tail , 40 



Southern India, Ceylon. 



A. Three broad cross bands, broader than the interspaces between 



them, which are of a very light hue ; the anterior band narrowest, 

 on the nape, confluent with the band extending from the eye, 

 the two others' across the back. 



u. 2 ■ Erode. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type of G. speciosus.) 

 b O . Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 



[C.-J. 



B. Large round or oval brown spots on the body, generally forming 



two regular longitudinal series. 



c, d. 5 & yg. Balarangams. Col. Beddome [C.]._ 



(Types of O. coUegahnsis.) 

 e-g. c? & hgr. Manar. Col. Beddome 



h-n. S 2 ■ Foot of Nilgherries. Col. Beddome 



o-p. 5 . High Wavy, Madura. Col. Beddome 



q-t. d S . S. India. Col. Beddome 



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