362 Reptilia and Amphibia from Central India. [No. 4, 



I cannot help doubting whether the type of Dumeril and 

 Bibron's species, 241 mm. (above 9 \ inches) long, is really iden- I 

 tical with the Indian Gecko. J e r d o n has noted this distinction 

 also in his Catalogue ; J. A. S. B., XXII; p. 467. Out of a consi- 

 derable number of specimens, I have none exceeding 4£ inches in 

 length. But the synonymy and classification of the Remidactyli of 

 India and the neighbouring countries is still far from clear. 



Loc. Found everywhere under stones and on trees. Very common 

 about Chanda ; I obtained specimens also in Raipiir and to the east- 

 ward. It is common in Calcutta houses, the tubercles being a 

 trifle smaller and blunter than in Central Indian exampl 



14. Hemidactylus gracilis, sp. nov. PI. xvi, Figs. 4-6. 



II. affinis H. reticulato, Bedd., gracilis, corpore parum dcpresso ; 1 

 Cauda rotundata, elongata, sine sjn'nis vel tuberculis majoribus ; dorso I 

 granulato, tuberculis majoribus subtrihedris elongatis ornato ; porisfemo- 

 ralibus nullis, inguinalibus G ; griseus, maculis et lineis fuscis tupertui 

 zitrinque, et so?pissime subtus fasciatus. 



Form slender, much less depressed than usual in the genus, back 

 granular with many elongate sub trihedral tubercles, all of equal 

 size and smaller than the ear opening, and arranged in distinct 

 longitudinal rows, the two central rows being the best marked. Tail 

 round, but slightly depressed at the base, and not at all farther 

 back, tapering, without any enlarged or spinose tubercles whatever, 

 this being clearly, I think, not due to reproduction, as it is constant 

 in four specimens, three of which have perfectly well developed 

 tails : subcaudal scales hexagonal, broad. The scales of the top and* 

 sides of the tail simply subimbricate, not in rings. Toes elongate, 

 not webbed, the plates beneath them narrow and undivided at the 

 base, broader and double towards the tips. Upper labials usually 

 9 ; lower 6 to 7, generally 7 ; the hinder 3 labials small. 

 The rows of scales across the belly are about 24 in number, 

 but they pass so gradually into the granular scales of the sides in 

 most specimens, that it is very difficult to count them. Ear opening 

 small, pupil of eye vertically oval, nearly as broad as high in some 

 cases, edges deeply waved. No femoral pores, 6 praeanal in a 

 curved or angulate line with the convexity directed forward. Colo- 





