132 GECKONH)^. 



Body 50 millim. 



Fore limb 22 „ 



Hind Umb 28 „ 



Tail 80 „ 



Persia ; Sind. 



d . Near Rohri, Sind. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



I 18. Hemidactylus maculatus. 



Hemidactylus maculatus, part., Ch-ay, Cat. p. 153. 

 Hemidactylus maculatus, part., bum. 8f Bibr. iii. p. 3S8. 



sykesii {Gray), Oiinih. Sept. Brit. Ind, p. 108, pi. zii. 



fig. 0. 



Head large, oviform ; snout longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, once and one fourth the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead concave ; canthus rostralis swollen ; ear-opening 

 large, oval. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderately dilated, 

 free, inner well developed; infradigital lamellae almost perfectly 

 straight, nine to eleven under the inner digits, twelve or thirteen 

 under the median. Head covered anteriorly with convex granular 

 scales, smaller in the frontal concavity, posteriorly with minute 

 granules intermixed with round tubercles ; rostral subtetragonal, not 

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

 tween the rostral, the first labial, and three or four nasals ; ten to 

 twelve upper and nine or ten lower labials; mental large, triangular 

 or pentagonal, twice as long as the adjacent labials ; two pairs of 

 chin-shields, inner largest, elongate, in contact behind the mental. 

 Upper surfaces with minute granular scales intermixed with mode- 

 rate-sized trihedral, more or less strongly keeled tubercles, the 

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

 they are arranged very irregularly on the back, in about twenty 

 longitudinal series. Abdominal scales smooth, roundish, imbricate. 

 Males with a long series of prseanal pores, nineteen to twenty-five on 

 each side, interrupted on the praeanal region. Tail rounded, tapering, 

 depressed, above with small irregular keeled scales, and six or eight 

 longitudinal series of large trihedral tubercles ; inferiorly with a 

 median series of transversely dilated plates. Brown above, with 

 darker spots, generally confluent into transverse undulated bands 

 on the back ; two more or less distinct dark streaks on each side of 

 the head, passing through the eye ; lower surfaces dirty white. 



Total length 244 millim. 



Head 32 „ 



Width of head 24 „ 



Body 82 „ 



Fore limb 40 „ 



Hind limb 51 „ 



Tail 130 „ 



India. 



