136 GECKONID^. 



rostral, the first labial, and three small nasals ; ten upper and eight 

 lower labials ; two pairs of chin-shields, the first only in contact. 

 Back with rounded tubercles arranged in twenty-two longitudinal 

 series ; a few tubercles between the hind legs are subtrihedral ; ten 

 to twelve femoral pores on each side. Tail verticillate, each verticil 

 armed laterally with three rows of rather elongate subtrihedral 

 tubercles; inferiorly with a single series of transverse plates. 

 Colours neutral grey or brown, with three rows of squarish dark 

 blotches ; forming either longitudinal or obliquely transverse in- 

 terrupted bands ; a few smaller spots on the sides ; a dark streak 

 through the eye with a pale line above it; tail with dark cross 

 bands. 



Upper Sind. 



23. Hemidactylus leschenaultii. 



Hemidactylus leschenaultii, Gray, Cat. p. 155. 

 Hemidactylus beUii, €h-ay, I, c. 

 Hemidactylus leschenaultii, Dum. ^ Bibr. iii. p. 364 ; Jerd. Journ. 



As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 468 ; Oiinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 109; 



Blanf. Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1871, p. 173 ; Stoliczka, op. cit. p. 193, 



and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 97. 



(Tachybates) leschenaultii, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 105. 



cootsei (non D. 8^ B.), Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 160. 



pustulosus, Lichtenst. Nomencl. Rept. Mus. Berol. p. 5. 



coctsei, part., Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 109. 



kelaai'tii, Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 29. 



mannoratus (non Salloio.), Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxzix. 



1870, p. 363, pi. xvi. figs. 1-3. 



Snout 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 concave, the supraorbital ridges prominent in 

 full-grown specimens ; ear-opening rather large, oval, vertical. 

 Body and hmbs moderate. A slight fold of the skin on the side of 

 the belly, from axilla to groin. Digits free, strongly dilated, inner 

 well developed ; six or seven (rarely five) lamellse under the inner 

 digits, nine to eleven under the median digits. Head covered with 

 minute granules posteriorly, with larger ones anteriorly ; rostral 

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

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, three nasals, and 

 generally the first labial; ten to twelve upper and eight or nine 

 lower labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal ; two pairs of 

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

 surface of body covered with small granules, uniform or intermixed 

 with more or less numerous scattered round tubercles. Abdominal 

 scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Males with a series of femoral 

 pores interrupted on the praeanal region ; twelve to sixteen pores on 

 each side. Tail depressed, flat inferiorly, covered above with small 

 smooth scales and six longitudinal series of corneal tubercles ; in- 

 feriorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Grey 

 above, with darker markings, forming undulated cross bars, rhom- 



