3. OTOCETPIIS. 4. PTYCIOL^MTTS. 273 



Total length 121 millim. 



Head 14 „ 



Width of head 9 „ 



Body 31 „ 



Fore limb 24 „ 



Hind limb 50 „ 



Tail 76 „ 



S. India. 



a-e. 5 & hgr. Sevaglierry Ghat, Col. Beddome [0.]. 



4. PTYCTOL.ffiM:US. 



Ptyctolsemus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 386. 



Body compressed. Fifth toe much longer than first. All the 

 scales keeled, the dorsals heterogeneous. No dorsal crest. Three 

 parallel longitudinal folds on each side of the middle of the throat, 

 curved and converging backwards, forming a U-shaped figure. 

 Ear concealed. No praeanal or femoral pores. 



Northern India. 



1. PtyctolaBmus gnilaris. 



Otooryptis (Ptyctolsemus) gularis, Peters, I, c. 



Head rather elongate, the snout longer than the diameter of the 

 orbit ; canthus rostralis and supraciliary edge angular ; upper head- 

 scales unequal, keeled;, eight upper and as many lower labials. A 

 shght indication of a nuchal crest ( $ ). Dorsal and lateral scales 

 small, feebly keeled, with irregularly scattered enlarged strongly 

 keeled ones; veutrals larger, strongly keeled. Limbs above with 

 subequal scales ; the hind limb stretched forwards reaches the 

 posterior border of the orbit; fifth toe as long as third. TaU 

 roundish, slender, a little more than twice as long as head and body, 

 covered with subequal keeled scales. Olive-brown above, with 

 darker transverse spots ; two curved dark-brown cross bands, sepa- 

 rated by a light one of equal width, between the eyes ; an oblique 

 dark-brown band frou below the eye to the angle of the mouth ; 

 limbs and tail above with dark cross bands ; the skin in the gular 

 folds black. 



Total length 227 millim. 



Head 19 „ 



Width of head 11-5 „ 



Body 50 „ 



Fore limb 31 „ 



Hind limb 54 „ 



Tail 158 „ 



N. India. 

 „. 2 . Sadya. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



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