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structure ; but ifc wants the palé neck-streaks and body and caudal 

 rings of ordinary H. salyator of Bengal, Ceylon, &c, while the 

 upper-parts are freckled throughout (save on the head) vvith white 

 scales and tips of scales interspersed among the black scales, more 

 copiously on the tail, and tending to form cióse and narrow transverso 

 lines on the sides. I have never seen this marking in specimens of 

 true H. salvatoe. obtained elsewhere ; and it may be remarked that 

 this species commonly attains the dimensions assigned by Dr. Gray 

 to his Australian H. gigaííteijs, viz. 78 in. We have examples of 

 that length both frora Lower Bengal and from Ceylon ; and the 

 occurrence of this reptile in Ceylon is the more remarkable, as it does 

 not appear to have been hitherto observed in the península of India. 



No Scincidce have yet been received. 



Of GeckotidcB, two species, both of which appear to be undescribed. 



Phelstjma andamanense, nobis, n. s. Differs from Ph. cepedia* 

 líUM, (Perón), of the Mauritius, by having a rather (yet distinctly) 

 less obtuse muzzle, which is conspicuously longer from the eye to the 

 nostril ; the auditory orifice is also much smaller, and round instead 

 of oval ; and the pattern of the markings of the dorsal surface is 

 different. In Ph. cepelianum, there are two sub-lateral palé lines, 

 with intermedíate palé spots more or less irregularly disposed : in 

 Ph. andamanense, there are no sub-lateral lines, but a mesial one 

 commencing on the nape and continued half-way along the back, the 

 rest of the upper-parts being sprinkled with numerous spots which 

 appear to have been bright red or orange : the palettes at the tips of 

 the toes are palé in the Mauritius species, dark in the other ; and I 

 can distinguish no femoral or prse-anal pores in Ph. andamanense, 

 but a fold of skin in place of them along the thighs : in Ph. cepe^ 

 dianum the femoral pores are continued to meet the opposite series, 

 at an angle which completes a triangle with the transverse vent. On 

 the chin of our present species, there is a series of five plates of equal 

 size and larger than the rest, anteriorly adjoining the labial plates. 

 Length of head and body 2 in. ; the tail, which had been renewed, 

 H in. 



There can be no hesitation in referring this Gecko to Phelstjma, 

 Gray, though the former has hitherto been known to exist only in Ma- 

 dagascar and the Mascarme islands. The other appears to be a new 

 form altogether : — 





