10. GYMNODACTrmS. 47 



at the base, strong-ly compressed in the remainiag portiou ; the basal 

 phalanx with well-developed transverse plates inferiorly, Head 

 granular, with small round tubercles on the occipital and temporal 

 regions, the granules enlarged on the snout, except in the frontal 

 and loreal concavities. Rostral subquadrangular, nearly twice as 

 broad as high, with median cleft above, entering considerably the 

 nostril ; latter directed posteriorly, pierced between the rostral, the 

 first labial, and three or four nasals ; ten to thirteen upper and ten 

 to twelve lower labials ; mental triangular ; two or three pairs of 

 chin-shields, median largest and in contact behind the point of the 

 mental ; throat minutely granulate. Body and limbs above with 

 smaU flat granules intermixed with small roundish, keeled, subtri- 

 hedral tubercles ; a series of keeled tubercles from axiUa to groin, 

 limiting the abdominal region ; ventral scales cycloid, imbricate, 

 moderately large. Males with a longitudinal groove on the pubic 

 region containing two parallel series of prseanal pores, forming a right 

 angle with a long series of femoral pores ; altogether eighteen to 

 twenty pores on each side, four or five of which are in the groove. 

 Tail C3'lindrical, tapering, above with small flat scales and annuli of 

 feebly keeled tubercles, inferiorly with a series of large transverse 

 plates. Light brown above, with broad chestnut-brown, light-edged 

 cross bands, which are narrower than the interspaces between them; 

 the anterior horseshoe-shaped, from eye to eye over the nape ; the 

 second crescent- shaped, on scapular regions ; three others on the 

 body ; taU with chestnut-brown complete annuli ; lower surfaces 

 dirty white. 



Total length 231 miUim. 



Head 28 „ 



Width of head 20 „ 



Body 73 „ 



Fore limb 42 „ 



Hind limb 54 „ 



Tail 130 „ 



Malay peninsula to Bengal. 



«, 6. 5 & hgr. Singapore. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. (Types.) 



c-d. cj. Singapoi-e. Dr. Cantor. 



e. Yg. Bengal. W. Masters, Esq. [P.]. 



/. c? . — — ? E. India Company. 



9- ?• ? 



35. Gymnodactylus consobrinus. 



Gymnodactylus consobrinus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 569, 

 and Ann. Mus. Genov. iii. 1872, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



Closely allied to 0. pulchellus. 'Distinguished by the following 

 characters : — Granules and tubercles of the upper surfaces smaller, 

 the dorsal tubercles not or but very indistinctly keeled, conical ; 

 ventral scales much smaller. Ear-opening smaller. Males with 

 an angular series of nine to eleven prseanal pores ; no pubic groove 

 nor femoral pores. Grey-brown above, with darker transverse 



