38 GBCKONIDiE. 



Total length 127 millim. 



Head 20 „ 



Width of head 14 „ 



Body 47 „ 



Fore limb 27 „ 



Hind limb 36 „ 



Tail 60 „ 



South Canara. •— 



a-c, (f. c?. S. Canara. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



19. Gynmodactylus oldhami. 



Gymnodactylus .oldhami, Theobald, Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 81. 



Crown of head behind the eyes finely granular, the scales in front 

 being larger ; eleven upper and ten lower labials ; three pairs of 

 chin-shields. Back granular, with about thirty longitudinal rows 

 of tubercles contained between an area bounded by faint keels mar- 

 gining the belly. Enlarged praaanal and femoral scales, but no pores. 

 Colour above vinous brown ; a white semicircular line joins the 

 superciliary ridges ; a second horseshoe-shaped white line runs from 

 the gape below the ear to the opposite side, enclosing a nuchal 

 collar; behind the collar two closely approximated white lines run 

 along the spine, becoming soon broken up into spots merely; on 

 the sides are more white spots, tending to form three distinct lines, 

 the lowest of which coincides with the ventral keel ; belly whitish. 



South Canara. 



According to Col. Beddome this species is identical with the 

 preceding ; but it wlU be remarked that the two descriptions by no 

 means agree, and I must therefore hold them distinct until we obtain 

 further information. 



20. Gymnodactylus triedrus. 



Gymnodactylus triedrus, Gunth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 1 13. 

 Geckoella punctata, Ch'ay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 99, pi. ix. 



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

 the eye, slightly longer than the distance between the eye and the 

 ear-opening ; forehead concave ; ear-opening small, suboval, hori- 

 zontal. Body and limbs moderate ; digits short, cylindrical in their 

 basal, compressed in their distal portion, with well-developed 

 tubercle-like plates inferiorly. Head covered with small granules, 

 largest on the snout ; rostral quadrangular, not twice as broad as 

 high; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and 

 several small scales ; ten or eleven upper and nine lower labials ; 

 mental triangular ; two or three pairs of chin-shields, median 

 largest and forming a long suture behind the point of the mental. 

 Upper surface of body covered with small granules intermixed with 

 numerous small trihedral tubercles. Abdominal scales rather small. 



