13. GOKTATODES. 69 



? Q-ymnodaotylus wicksii, Stolicxha, Joum. As, Soc. Benq. xlii. 



1873, p. 165. 

 ? Gymnodactylua humei, Theoh, Cat. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 89. 



Head rather elongate ; snout obtusely pointed, longer than the 

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

 diameter of the orbit ; forehead not concave ; ear-opening small, 

 oval. Body and limbs rather slender ; the hind Hmb reaching the 

 axilla or the shoulder. Digits slender, the basal part not dilated, 

 scarcely wider than the distal, and with enlarged plates inferiorly. 

 Snout covered with suboval keeled granules j the rest of the 

 head minutely granulate; rostral twice aa broad as high, with 

 median emargination and cleft above ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral and three or four nasals ; seven or eight upper and as 

 many lower labials ; mental large, triangular, with truncate poste- 

 rior angle ; numerous small chin-shields passing gradually into the 

 gular granules, which are feebly keeled. Upper surface of body 

 covered with small, more or less distinctly keeled granules, inter- 

 mixed with irregularly scattered smaU keeled tubercles ; flanks with 

 small, widely separated, spine-like tubercles. Scales on the limbs 

 keeled. Ventral scales cycloid, imbricate, those under the neck 

 keeled, the others smooth. Males with three or foui prseanal, and 

 on each side three to five femoral pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 above with very small keeled scales and annuli of spine-like tuber- 

 cles, inferiorly with larger scales, but no transversely dilated median 

 plates. Brown above, variegated with darker and lighter, these 

 variegations generally forming transverse markings on the back and 

 taU ; sometimes a light vertebral band ; the spine-like tubercles on 

 the flanks white ; lower surfaces light brown or dirty white, the 

 throat sometimes blackish. 



Total length 75 mUlim. 



Head 9'5 ,, 



Width of head 5-5 „ 



Body 27-5 „ 



Fore limb 13 „ 



HindUmb 18 „ 



TaU 38 „ 



Ceylon ; S. India. 



a-c, d-h, i. c? $ • Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. (Types.) 



1sr-m. c?S- Ceylon. G. H.K.Thwaites,Esq. 



re, 0. Several spec. : S, S. Oanara. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



5 , & yg. 



p_g_ ^ p _ Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C. 



t_^_ jj o . Tinnevelly. Col. Beddome [0. 



v-^. S 5 • Sevagherry HUls. Col. Beddome 'pi 



Malabar. Col. Beddome '0.' 



X. 3 



^2. S. India. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. 



:p.]- 



The following specimens agree so well in structure and in their 



