36 GECKONID^. 



C. The spots are smaller and less strongly marked, also arranged in 

 pairs, but more transverse and sometimes uniting into angular 

 cross lines. 



u-x. Hgr. & yg. Golconda Hills. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



(Types of G. nebulosus.) 

 y-z. Yg. Gorge Hill, Godavery. Col. Beddome "" " 



a-S. S & hgr. Nellumba. Col. Beddome 



f-f. (5 2 . Russelconda. Col. Beddome 



16. Gymnodactylus jeyporensis. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 

 Gymnodactylus jeyporensis, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 685. 



Head rather large, oviform ; snout longer than the diameter of 

 the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; 

 forehead and loreal region slightly concave ; ear-opening an oblique 

 slit, three fifths the diameter of the eye. Body depressed, rather 

 short. Limbs moderate; digits rather short, cylindrical in their 

 basal, compressed in their distal portion, inferiorly with enlarged 

 plates. Head covered with large subequal flat granules ; rostral 

 quadrangular, twice as broad as high, vnth median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three 

 nasals ; ten upper and seven lower labials ; mental triangular ; a 

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

 mental, surrounded by much smaller chin-shields. Body covered 

 above with uniform juxtaposed large, squarish, hexagonal flat scales 

 arranged regularly like the bricks of a wall. Abdominal scales 

 smooth, round, imbricate, not half the size of the dorsals. No 

 enlarged praeanal or femoral scales nor pores. Tail cylindrical, 

 tapering, slightly swollen, covered with uniform rather large smooth 

 scales, which are imbricate inferiorly. Light yellowish brown 

 above, with large reddish-brown, black-edged spots arranged in 

 pairs ; two transverse spots on the nape, the posterior crescent- 

 shaped ; head with small darker spots and a streak from eye to 

 ear ; lips and side of throat with small brown dots and marblings ; 

 lower surfaces brownish white. 



Total length 92 miUim. 



Head 16 



Width of head 11 



Body 38 



Fore limb 20 



Hind limb 27 



Tail 38 



, Jeypoor. 



a. (J . Patinghe Hill, Jeypoor. Col. Beddome fC 1 



(Type.) 



17. Gymnodactylus deccanensis. 

 Gymnodactylus dekkanensis, Giinth. Mept. Brit. Ind. p. 115 p], xii 



fig. E. ' r • • 



