72 - G-ECKONID^. 



strongly dilated at the base, with large plates inferiorly ; the distal 

 of these plates is the largest, longer than broad, truncate anteriorly. 

 Upper surfaces covered with equal smooth granules, minute on the 

 back, much larger on the snout; a few very small subconical 

 tubercles are scattered on the flanks. Eostral large, quadrangular, 

 twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral and three nasals ; eight to ten upper and six to 

 eight lower labials ; mental large, broadly triangular, its posterior 

 angle truncate ; small chin-shields passing gradually into the small 

 smooth gular granules. Ventral scales hexagonal, imbricate, 

 smooth. Males with sixteen to eighteen femoral pores on each side ; 

 no prffianal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, above with uniform 

 small smooth scales, inferiorly with a median series of transversely 

 dilated plates. Grey-brown above, generally with a row of lighter 

 dark-edged spots along the back, and a black spot on the nape ; 

 nearly always a black line bordering the lower lip, and extending 

 as far as the ear ; lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 68 millim, 



Head 10 „ 



Width of head 5 „ 



Body 23 „ 



Fore limb 14 „ 



Hind limb 16 „ 



Tail 35 „ 



Southern India. 



a. Many spec. ; d, $, Nellicottah. Ool. Beddome [0.]. (Types 



& yg. of G. planijKS.) 



h, c-d. Several spec. : Nilambar. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



6, S,&yg. 



Gouatodes boiei. 



Goniodaetylus boiei, Gray, Zool, Misc. p. 58. 



timorensis {nmi B. ^ B. ?), part., Gray, Cat. p. 172. 



" Blackish (discoloured ? in spirits) ; back with close, squarish, 

 minute, uniform, rather prominent scales ; tail slender, longer than 

 the body ; lower labial shields unequal, three front , large, the 

 second largest, rest small ; the chin-scales moderate, triangular 

 behind, with two small polygonal shields behind them ; rest of 

 throat-scales small, polygonal." 



a-d. India. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. (Type.) 



In too bad state to be described ; doubtless a Oonatodes distinct 

 from the other Indian species, and apparently allied to O. jerdonii. 



The following specimens, types of Goniodaetylus australis, Gray, 

 belong probably to this genus, but they are in too bad a state to be 

 determinable : — 



Goniodaetylus australis, Gray, Cat. p. 172. — " Pale brown, darker- 



