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sub-granular shields : tail round with larger tubercles near the 

 base and gradually disappearing towards the end which is curled ; 

 toes and fingers free, slender with a few sub-tubercular shields 

 at their bases, and with narrow shields on more than the front 

 half; claws short but sharply curved ; ten upper and lower labials ; 

 the nostrils are superseded by a somewhat larger shield, and there 

 are several small shields posterior to the rostral which is rather low 

 and broad ; four enlarged chin shields, the lower rostral reaches 

 between the first pair ; sub-caudals not enlarged. The preanal 

 pores are situated in the male in a short fold between the femora, 

 there are three or four on each side at the internal edge of the fold. 

 In the females, this fold is either obsolete, or slightly indicated, but 

 the pores are always absent. 



Ground colour above light, or rarely darker, brown with a fleshy 

 tinge about the head and with two generally distinct marks, one on 

 the nape beginning from the eyes, the other across the shoulders ; rest 

 of head on the top spotted, with some dark streaks in front and on 

 the sides ; bod} 7 dark spotted and striped ; tail when perfect cylin- 

 drical with numerous broad blackish rings, somewhat confluent 

 below ; when reproduced it is thicker, shorter and of a more uni- 

 form brownish color with small blackish spots ; below uniform 

 whitish pale fleshy, or sometimes even purplish. The usual length 

 of specimens is about five inches, but it grows up to six indies 

 and perhaps more, the tail exceeding the body by about one-fifth 

 of its length. The species seems peculiar to the Andamans ; I 

 found it on trees, but Col. T y 1 1 e r mentions that it also occurs 

 under stones where it no doubt searches after insects. 



The above description of the species taken from fresh specimens 

 collected by myself, shews that the character of Mr. B 1 y t h 

 Pwllula has to be cancelled, and that wo have in the present 

 lizard a typical Cyrlodactylm, as characterized by G r a y in his 

 Catalogue of Lizards, p. 173. I am inclined to retain this genus 

 as distinct from Gymnodactylus, which it otherwise closely resembles, 

 but while the species of this last genus are house-Geckoes the 

 Cyrtodactyli are typical tree-Geckoes, and their tail is rounded 

 instead of flattened, the situation of the preanal or femoral pores is 

 also very peculiar and distinct from Gymnodactylus. 



