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F. Stoliczka — On Indian lizards. 
[No. 1, 
3rd . — The fore limb, when laid forward, at least reaches the nasal shield 
and more often the tip of the snout and the hind limb extends rarely only 
to the collar, usually somewhat beyond it, and occasionally as far as the 
tympanum. 
None of these points indicate, I believe, a specific distinction from typi- 
cal A. Cantoris, as described by Gunther. Some of my specimens agree in 
every point of size with the measurements given by Gunther ; the largest 
is 9 inches. 
Of other variations may be noted : — the anterior frontal is, as a rule, 
single, sometimes split into two unequal portions, and in one instance it is 
represented by a regular pair of equal shields. The posterior frontals gene- 
rally form a suture, but sometimes they are partially or even entirely 
separated by an intercalated shorter, or longer, or by two, shields. The 
posterior supraciliaries are often broken up into two shields. The form and 
number of verticaland occipitals is persistent. The large shield below the orbit 
sometimes rests on two or on three labials, and occasionally it touches the 
labial margin itself. 
Fam. GECKO TID2E. 
Gecko guttattjs (I. E. p. 102). 
The young of this, and indeed of most other speciesf of Geckoes, are 
dark, or blackish brown, with white spots. F ew small spots are on the hinder 
part of the head, while on the body they are larger and generally arranged 
in 7 irregular cross series, the first series being placed immediately behind the 
occiput and the last between the hind limbs ; tail blackish with 7 white 
rings, the last occupying the tip. 
The general structure is exactly as in the old, but the tubercles are 
much flatter ; there are (in several specimens) only 34 longitudinal series 
in the middle of the belly, while in old ones the number rises to 50. 
PlTCHOZOON H0MA10CEPHA1TJM. 
I. R., p. 105 and Journal A. S. B., xxxix, p. 159. 
This species occurs both at the Nicobar and Andaman islands. 
* Gunther says it only reaches * the front edge of the orbit,’ but ho gives the 
fore limb 11 lines, which is exaotly tho distance between the axil and the nasal shield 
in all my specimens measuring 7 inches. 
f It is, therefore, very probable that the specimen of Gecko Smithii, Gray, which 
I noticed on p. 161 of Jour. A. S. B., 1870, Yol. xxxix, has still the coloration of the 
young, and may lose most of tho white spots, when adult. Dr. Anderson when 
re-describing the same in Proo. Zool. Soc. for 1871, p. 159, subsequent to the 
publication of my paper, omitted to notice the identity of the specimen, which it is 
necessary to do, because a misprint occurred in my statement (1. cit. on p. 162) as re- 
gards the total measurement, this being 4'8 inches (instead of 5'8 inches), but the 
other detailed measurements are correct. 
