34. HOPLODACITLUS. 175 



Body 68 millim. 



Fore limb 31 „ 



Hind limb 40 „ 



Tail 102 „ 



New Zealand. 



a,b. 2 . New Zealand. Sir E. Owen [P.]. (Types.) 



c-e. $ &yg. New Zealand. Sii- G. Grey [P.]. 



/. $ . New Zealand. Dr. Sinclair [P.]. 



g. 2 . New Zealand. Oapt. Drury [P.]. 



h-k, I. d 2- New Zealand. 



5. Hoplodactylus anamaJlensis. (Plate XIV. fig. 2.) 

 Gecko anamallensis, Ounth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 226. 



Head sbortly oviform ; snout a little longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, once and one third the 

 diameter of the orbit ; forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening 

 small, oval, oblique. Body and limbs moderate. Digits free, not 

 very strongly dilated, inner well developed ; infradigital lamellae 

 openly angular, five under the inner digits, six or seven under the 

 median fingers, and seven or eight under the median toes. Upper sur- 

 faces uniformly granular, .the granules scarcely larger on the snout 

 than on the back. Rostral four-sided, more than twice as broad as 

 high ; nostril pierced beween the rostral, the first labial, and three 

 nasals ; nine or ten upper and seven or eight lower labials ; mental 

 broadly triangular or pentagonal ; two pairs of larger chin-shields 

 anteriorly, followed by smaller ones passing gradually into the 

 granules of the throat ; abdominal scales cycloid, imbricated, smooth. 

 Male with an uninterrupted series of femoral pores, twenty or twenty- 

 one on each side. Tail cylindrical, tapering, slightly depressed at the 

 base, above with small imbricated scales, inferiorly with a median 

 series of transversely dilated plates. Grey-brown above, spotted or 

 marbled with darker ; a few scattered lighter dots ; lower surfaces 

 brownish white. 



Total length 82 millim. 



Head 12 „ 



Width of head 8-5 „ 



Body 33 „ 



Fore limb 14 „ 



Hind limb 18 „ 



Tail 37 



Southern India. 



a. 5 . Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. (Type.) 



b. Several specs, : j? , Tinnevelly. Col. Beddome [0.]. 

 2,hgr., &yg. 



