23. HEMIDACTIXTJS. 129 



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c. cT- rAustralia.J Lord Derby [P.]. f (^®S-) 



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e-f- 6 & yg. Porto Praya. 0. Darwin, Esq. [0.1. 



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h- ?■ Fernando Po. Mr. Eraser [0.1 



«• ? • Old Oalabar. Mr. Rutherford fO.l. 



fc-Z. d?- W.Africa. Ml-. Dalton rc.l 



TO-M, 0. cJ ? . W. Africa. 



P- <S- ? T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 



14. Hemidactylus gleadovii. 



Hemidactylus maculatus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 153. 

 Hemidactylus maculatus, Kdaart, Prodi: Faun. Zeyl. p. 158 ; Oiinth. 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 107 ; StoKczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 



1870, p. 164 ; Blanford, torn. dt. p. 361 ; StoUozka, op. cit. xli. 



1872, p. 94 ; Anders. Zool. W. Yunnan, i. p. 800. 

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

 Hemidactylus gleadowi, Murray, Zool. Bind, p. 360, pi. — . fig. 3. 



Head OTiform ; snout longer than the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, once and one fourth or once and one third the 

 diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening oval, oblique, 

 about half the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs moderate. 

 Digits moderately dilated, free, inner well developed ; infradigital 

 lamellae with strongly curved anterior border, four to six under the 

 inner digits, six to eight under the median. Head covered anteriorly 

 with convex granular, sometimes keeled, scales, posteriorly with 

 minute granules intermixed with round tubercles ; rostral subtetra- 

 gonal, not twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three or 

 four nasals : eight to ten upper and seven to nine lower labials ; 

 mental large, triangxdar or pentagonal, twice as long as the adjacent 

 labials ; chin-shields generally four, the inner largest, in contact 

 behind the mental. Upper surfaces with minute granular scales 

 intermixed with moderate-sized trihedral strongly-keeled tubercles, 

 the largest not measuring more than one third the diameter of the 

 eye ; they form sixteen to twenty pretty regular longitudinal series 

 on the back. Abdominal scales smooth, roundish, imbricate. Males 

 with a series of femoral pores generally interrupted in the middle ; 

 altogether sixteen to twenty-four pores. Tail rounded, tapering, 

 depressed, above with small smooth scales and six or eight longitu- 

 dinal series of large, pointed, strongly keeled tubercles, inferiorly 

 with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Brownish above, 

 spotted with darker ; a dark streak on the side of the head, passing 

 through the eye ; lower surfaces dirty white. 



Total length 117 millim. 



Head 16 „ 



Width of head 12 „ 



