23. HBMIDAOTTLTJS. 119 



joint, moderately dilated ; five or six lameUse under the inner digits, 

 seven or eight under the fourth finger, and eight or nine under the 

 fourth toe. Snout covered with keeled granules ; the rest of the 

 head with smaller granules intermixed with round tuhercles. Eos- 

 tral four-sided, not twice as broad as high, with median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and 

 three or four nasals ; nine or ten upper and seven to nine lower 

 labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal ; four chin-shields, 

 inner pair largest and in contact behind the point of the mental. 

 Body covered above with coarse gxanules intermixed with numerous 

 irregularly arranged, small, round, keeled tubercles. Abdominal scales 

 rather small, cycloid, imbricate, smooth.' Male with six to nine 

 prseanal pores forming an angular series. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 covered above with small granular scales and rings of six or eight 

 large conical tubercles, inferiorly with uniform small imbricated 

 scales. Brown above, with a network of darker lines ; many of 

 the tubercles whitish ; lower surfaces whitish, the throat sometimes 

 vermiculated with brown. 



Total length 64 mUHm. 



Head 10-5 „ 



Width of head 8-5 „ 



Body 29-5 „ 



Fore limb 12 „ 



Hind limb 14-5 „ 



Tail (reproduced) 24 „ 



South India, 



a-S. cJ?. Oolegal. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Types.') 

 c-d, e-g. d, S , & hgr. Shevaroya. Ool. Beddome [C.]. 



4. Hemidactylus gracilis. 



Hemidactylus gracilis, Blanford, Journ. As, Soe. xxxix. 1870, p. 362, 

 pi. xvi. ligs. 4-6. 



Head narrow, elongate ; snout a little longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, once and one third or once 

 and two fifths the diameter of the orbit ; forehead not concave ; ear- 

 opening small, roundish. Body and limbs slender, feebly depressed. 

 Digits free, very feebly dilated, inner well developed; the distal 

 joint short ; five lameUse under the inner digits, seven under the 

 fourth finger, and nine under the fourth toe. Snout with rather 

 large polygonal rugose scales ; hinder part of head with small gra- 

 nules. Eostral four-sided, not twice as broad as high, with median 

 cleft above; nostrU pierced between the rostral and four nasals; 

 nine upper and seven lower labials ; mental large, triangular, more 

 than twice as long as the adjacent labials ; four large chin-shields, 

 inner pair in contact behind the point of the mental. Body covered 

 above with coarse granules intermixed with oval, subtrihedral. 



