10. eTMNODACiyLtrs. 43 



shields on each side of the median pair; gular scales minutely 

 granular. Body covered ahove with flat granules intermixed with 

 irregularly scattered small round smooth tubercles. A slight fold from 

 axilla to groin. Abdominal scales rather small, cycloid, imbricate. 

 Males with two pairs of prseanal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 covered above with small flat subquadrangular scales, inferiorly with a 

 median series of large transverse plates. Light pinkish brown above, 

 with five pairs of angular dark-brown spots confluent into cross 

 bands, the anterior on the nape and uniting with a dark-brown 

 band extending to the eye, and which is continued, more or less 

 interrupted, along the side of the body ; tail with dark-brown 

 annuli ; lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 192 millim. 



Head 24 



Width of head 18 



Body 66 



Fore limb 32 



Hind limb 42 



Tail 102 



Ceylon. 



a,h,c. (S , 5,andhgr. Ceylon. (Types.) 



d. j . Ceylon. 



28. Gymnpdactylus variegatus. 



Naultinus variegatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. 1859, 



p. 279 ; Tlieob. Cat. JRept. As. Soc. Mus. p. .32. 

 Gymnodactylus variegatus, Oiinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 11(3; Anders. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 161. 



Limbs and digits slender ; the basal joints not very distinct from 

 the distal ones, which are strongly compressed, and provided with 

 transverse imbricate plates below and a series of much smaller ones 

 on the compressed phalanges. Kostral notched behind and grooved ; 

 nostril between the rostral, the first labial, aud three nasals ; ten to 

 eleven upper and eleven lower labials ; mental partially wedged in 

 between two large chin-shields, which form a broad suture with each 

 other. Body granular, with numerous large trihedral tubercles. 

 Twenty-six longitudinal rows of rather elongated leaf-like scales on 

 the middle of the belly. A fold of skin along the side, indicating 

 where the abdominal scales terminate and the granules begin. 

 Sixteen femoral pores on each side along the whole length of the 

 thigh. Tail cylindrical, the granules arranged in verticils, and the 

 tubercles in rings ; a series of enlarged subeaudals. Grey above, 

 spotted and marbled with black, set off with subdued white ; a broad 

 dark streak bordered with whitish behind each eye, and continued 

 irregularly round the occiput : tail irregularly banded above ; lower 

 parts whitish. Total length about 150 miUim., the tail measuring 

 nearly half that length. 



Moulmein. 



