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with dark bands : a pale yellow streak from muzzle to tail bordered 

 beneath by a dark line ; another dark line from nostrils to behind 

 the eye — beneath yellowish white — some of the sub-caudal scuta? 

 orange. 



Length 3f inches, of which the tail is \\. 



I procured a single specimen of this small Gecko lately, in a house 

 at Tellicherry. At first glance, I took it for maculatus. It appears 

 very similar to H.frenatus, but I can find no pores, and the thumb 

 appears as well developed as in maculatus. 



Hemidactylus leschenatjltii — Dum. and Bibr. 



Small tubercles scattered sparingly among the very small scales 

 of the back, 13 femoral pores in each thigh. Adult pale grey above ; 

 young with dark markings and tail annulated black and white. 



Length of one nearly 6 inches, of which the tail is 2 T 8 ^ths. 



This species of Gecko is very common throughout the South of 

 India in houses. I have not observed the mode of coloration 

 described by Dumeril and Bibron. 



[Gen. HOMONOTA — Gray. 



H. easciata, nobis. Body covered above with large, imbricated, 

 keeled and pointed scales, below with much smaller hexagonal scales 

 ranged in oblique series : the throat and limbs studded with minute 

 hexagonal scales, larger on the thighs ; and the head uniformly 

 covered with hexagonal plates, smaller than the scales of the back. 

 A range of simple labial plates above and below, the rostral larger, 

 bordered on the lower jaw with a series of small oval plates, and 

 these with a second series of smaller oval plates. Tail wanting in 

 the specimen. The pupils appear to be round. Colour plumbeous- 

 brown, with 7 or 8 irregular broad whitish cross-bands, formed each 

 of three or more contiguous spots. An omega-like mark on the 

 forehead. Length of head and body 1\ in., of head f in., This spe- 

 cimen was sent many years ago to the Society's museum by Mr. 

 Jerdon. Cur. As. Soc.~] 



Genus GYMNODACTYLUS— Wiegman— Vide Cantor, 



1. c. p. 631. 

 Gtmnodactylus iNDicus, — (Gray). 



Scales of body and tail small, equal ; those beneath the tail larger. 

 Syn. Goniodactylus indicus, Gray. 



