144 OBCKOISTD^. 



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

 opening, once and a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead con- 

 cave ; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Body and limbs moderate, 

 much depressed ; a cutaneous expansion from axilla to groin, and 

 another bordering the hind Umb posteriorly. Digits strongly dilated, 

 about half-webbed, inner well developed ; five or six lameUse under 

 the inner, and seven to nine under the median digits. Upper sur- 

 faces covered with uniform small granules, largest on the snout. 

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

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three 

 nasals ; nine to eleven upper and seven or eight lower labials ; 

 mental large, triangular or pentagonal, in contact with two large 

 chin-shields, followed by two smaller ones. Abdominal scales 

 moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Male with an uninterrupted series of 

 femoral pores, seventeen or eighteen on each side. Tail much de- 

 pressed, flat inferiorly, with sharp denticulated lateral edge, covered 

 above with uniform small granules, inferiorly with a median series 

 of transversely dUated plates. Grey above, marbled with darker; 

 generally a dark streak from eye to shoulder ; white beneath. 



Total length 113 miUim. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head 11 „ 



Body 41 „ 



Fore Umb 20 „ 



Hind Umb 24 „ 



Tail 57 „ 



Ceylon ; North India ; South China ; Indo-China ; Malay penin- 

 sula ; East-Indian archipelago. 



a-b. 2 ■ Oeylon. Dr. Kelaart. 



e. c? • Sikkim. Ool. Beddome. 



d. Yg. Hong Kong. C. Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 



e-f. (S . Gamboja. M. Mouhot [0.1. 



ff. $ . Siam. M. Mouhot [0.]. 



h. 5 . Siam. 0. Bowi-ing, Esq. [P.]. 



i. 2 ■ Siam. W. H. Newman, Esq. [P.]. 



k-^m. 2 & hgr. Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



ra-o. (S 2 • Philippines. 



p. 2 ■ Dinagat Island. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



q. 2 ■ Borneo. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



r-s. 2 ■ Java. Leyden Museum. 



t. 2 ■ Java. Dr. Bleaker. 



u. Yg. Java. Mrs. Lyon [P.]. 



V. 2 ■ Manado. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



24. TERATOLEPIS. 



Teratolepis, Gimther, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 504. 



Digits dilated, inferiorly with a double series of lamellse, with 

 elongate compressed distal joint rising from within the extremity 



