66 GECKomDJE. 



11. Gouatodes sisparensis. 



Gymnodactylus maculatus {non Steind.), Beddorm, Madras Jmrn, 



Med. 8c. 1870. 

 sisparensis, Theobald, Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 86. 



Closely allied to Q. wynadensis, but tii6 digits much more 

 elongate. Eight femoj'al pores on each side. Dorsal tubercles 

 homogeneous. Brown, with regular transverse dark bands across 

 the body and taU. From snout to vent 62 miUim. 



Southern India. 



a. (Jjvery bad Sholakal, Sispara Ghat. Ool. Beddome [0.]. (Type.) 

 h. S- S.W.India. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



12. Gonatodes ornatus. (Plate VI. fig. 3.) 

 Gymnodactylus ornatus, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. So. 1870. 



Head rather elongate ; snout acuminate, longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, once and a half to once and 

 two thirds the diameter- of the orbit ; forehead feebly concave ; ear- 

 opening small, vertically ovaL Body moderate, limbs rather 

 slender ; the hind limb reaching the shoulder or a little beyond. 

 Digits elongate, slender ; the basal part not dilated, scarcely wider 

 than the distal, inferiorly with very small plates and a large 

 discoid one under the articulation. Snout covered with keeled 

 granules ; hinder part of head with uniform minute granules. 

 Rostral four-sided, twice as broad as high, with median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals ; 

 six to nine upper and seven or eight lower labials j mental 

 large, triangular or pentagonal, its posteiior angle truncate and 

 in contact with a small median chin-shield ; two pairs of larger 

 chin-shields, tipper surface of body covered with small smooth 

 granules irregularly intermixed with smaU round convex, some- 

 times slightly keeled, tubercles. Abdominal scales small, round, 

 imbricate, smooth. Males with six to nine prseanal pores forming 

 an angular line. Tail cylindrical, becoming islender in its distal 

 half, covered above with smaU smooth scales, in its anterior 

 portion with semiannuli of pointed keeled tuberoks ; inferiorly with 

 large smooth scales, the median series being a little enlarged. 

 Brown above, with blackish and whitish markings ; head generally 

 with black and white angular lines ; generally a black and white 

 band across the neck and a white, black-edged oceUus In front of 

 the arm ; tail with complete black and white annuU ; lower sur- 

 faces brownish, the lower Up brown-edged. 



Total length 117 miUim, 



Head 16 „ 



Width of head ]0-,5 ., 



