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with small granules, among wMoh. some larger ones are sometimes 

 scattered on the sides. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, im- 

 bricate. Male -witli a short series of five or six femoral pores under 

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

 smooth scales and four or six longitudinal series of conical tubercles ; 

 inferiorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Grey 

 above, uniform or with indistinct darker marblings ; lower surfaces 

 white. 



Total length 157 miUim. 



Head 20 



Width of head 16 



Body 56 



Pore limb 28 



Hind limb 34 



TaU 81 



25. Hemidactylus giganteus. 



Hemidactylus giganteus, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soe, Beng. xli. 1872, 



p. 99, pi. ii. fig. 2 ; Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 636. 

 coctssi, part., Cfiinth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 86. 



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

 ing, once and a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; 

 ear-opening rather large, suboval, vertical. Body and limbs stout. 

 Digits free, inner well developed, strongly dilated, with straight 

 transverse lamellse inferiorly ; latter, eleven or twelve under the 

 inner digits, thirteen to fifteen under the median digits. Upper 

 surfaces covered with uniform small granular scales, somewhat 

 larger on the snout, smallest on the hinder part of the head. . Eos- 

 tral quadrangular, not quite twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral and three nasals ; twelve to fifteen upper and 

 eleven to thirteen lower labials; mental large, pentagonal; two 

 pairs of chin-shields, inner largest. Abdominal scales rather small, 

 cycloid, imbricate. Male with a series of femoral pores inter- 

 rupted medially ; nineteen to twenty-two pores on each side. TaU 

 without large tubercles. OUve-grey above, with irregular dark, pale- 

 edged marks in imperfect circles, inclined to form, or forming, four or 

 five transverse undulating bands on the body ; below uniform white. 



