120 GECKONIB*. 



strongly keeled tubercles arranged in about twelve irregular longi- 

 tudinal series. Abdominal scales large, cycloid, imbricate, smooth. 

 Male with six prseanal pores forming an angular series. [Tail 

 round, but slightly depressed at the base, and not at all further 

 back, tapering, without any enlarged or spinose tubercles whatever.] 

 Grey above, with subquadrangular black spots arranged in longitu- 

 dinal series, confluent into lines on the rachis and sides ; a black, 

 above white-edged streak on the side of the head, passing through 

 the eye ; whitish beneath, specimen a with longitudinal grey lines. 



From snout to vent 36 miUim. 



Head 10 „ 



Width of head 5-5 „ 



Fore limb 11 „ 



Hind Umb 14 „ 



South-east Berar and Eajpoor. 



a. S- S.E. Berar. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.]. 



(One of the types.) 

 i.6- Eajpoor. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



5. Hemidactylus frenatus. 



Hemidactylus frenatus. Gray, Cat. p. 155. 

 Hemidactylus vittatus, Gray, I. c. 

 Hemidactylus frenatus {Schleg.), Dum. 8^ Bihr. iii. p. 366 ; Kelaart, 



Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 161 ; Gurdh. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 108 ; Sto- 



liczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. l64, & xli. 1872, 



p. 96 ; Anders. Zool. W. Yunnan, p. 801. 



(Pnoepus) javanicus, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 106. 



? Hemidactylus punctatus, Jm-don, Jmirn. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1854, 



p. 467. 

 Hemidactylus inornatus, Sallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 492. 

 ? Hemidactylus pumilus, Hallow. I. e. p. 502. 

 Gecko chaus, Tytler, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xxxiii. 1864, p. 547. 



caracal, Tytler, I. c. 



Hemidactylus vittatus, Gray, Zool. Erebus 8f Terror, pi. xv. fig. 5. 

 longiceps, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 320. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, once and one third to once and a half the diameter of the 

 orbit; forehead concave; ear-opening small, roundish. Body and 

 limbs moderate. Digits moderately dilated, free, inner with sessile 

 claw ; four or five lamellae under the inner digits, seven or eight 

 (seldom nine) under the fourth finger, and nine or ten under the 

 fourth toe. Upper surfaces covered with smaU granules, largest on 

 the snout ; on the back these granules are intermixed with more 

 or less numerous, sometimes almost entirely absent, irregularly 

 scattered round convex tubercles always much smaUer than the 

 ear-opening. Eostral four-sided, nearly twice as broad as high, 

 with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, 

 the first labial, and three nasals ; ten to twelve upper and eight 

 to ten lower labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal ; two 

 or three pairs of chin-shields, the median in contact behind the 



