1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. 167 



Having carefully examined my fresh specimens, I was of course 

 reluctant to see what it may be that has caused Mr. B 1 y t h to 

 give such a different characteristic of his Puellula. On examining 

 his originals the deception became clear. Evidently the speci- 

 mens have been put in very strong spirit, or this had partially 

 evaporated, and was refilled with perhaps double the strength. 

 The skin of all specimens consequently shrunk along the back and 

 on the sides, as well as between the femoral region, and these 

 ridges had become so stiff and permanent, that it is by no means 

 surprising they were taken as natural dorsal crest, and as folds on 

 the side of the belly. However, a careful examination of these 

 specimens shewed that the ridges are irregular, and in some places 

 broken up so that there could be not the least doubt as to their 

 being accidental. In fresh specimens nothing of all this exists, 

 and the species is, as already noted, a typical Cyrtodactylus. 



In external appearance and coloration, C. rubidus greatly resem- 

 bles Gymn. variegatus, B 1 y t h, from Moulmein (0- ii n t h., 1. cit., 

 p. 1 1 6), except that in this species the femoral pores are differently 

 situated, the tubercles on the back and the scales on the belly are a 

 little larger, the sub-caudals enlarged and the tail depressed, as in 

 other Gymnodactyli. 



I do not see Mr. Theobald's argument — Cat. Kept. Asiat. 

 Soc. Museum, p. 32 — where he retains G. variegatusj under the 

 genus JVaultinus (vide Gray's Lizards, p. 169), for it does not 

 agree with that sub-genus in the form of the tail, nor in the posi- 

 tion and distribution of the preanal pores. 



23. Cyrtodactylus affinis, n. sp. PI. X, fig. 1. 



Body rather depressed, covered with smaller and numerous en- 

 larged sub-trihedral tubercles, each of which has 3-5 grooves ; 

 shields of head small, those in front slightly enlarged and flattened ; 

 rostral very large, reaching posteriorly to the top of head and 

 grooved, a small shield above each nostril but not in contact ; 

 upper labials 12, very low ; opening of the ear moderate, verti- 

 cally elongated ; lower rostral very large, sub-triangular, reaching 

 backward ; eleven lower labials ; a few of the chin shields next to 

 the rostral are squarish, very litttle larger than others, but none 



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