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respectively are perfectly equal, and close together. All the claws are well 
developed, lying between enlarged scales, at the sides and above, but they 
are not retractile. A few slightly enlarged scales above the anus, superseded 
by two pairs of pores, close together, and forming an angle. 
General colour above greyish brown, very densely marbled and spotted 
with dark brown, with some indistinct, undulating, whitish cross bands on 
the body, margined on the anterior edges with blackish brown ; a somewhat 
indistinct dark band from the nostril through the eye to the ear ; front and 
hind edges of the eye white ; labials spotted and speckled with brown ; below 
whitish. 
Length of body nearly two inches ; tail imperfect, only about one inch 
long, slightly swollen at the base. 
Sab. — The single specimen from which the above description is taken 
was sent to me by Mr. W. A. Lawder, District Engineer of Kamaon ; it 
was obtained in the neighbourhood of Almorah. 
Cantor says, when speaking of Gymnod. pulchellus (Journ. Asiat. Soc. 
Bengal, 1847, vol. xvi, p. 633) that there are two new Gymnodactyli preserved 
in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, one marked P. lunatus, Blyth, based 
upon one specimen from Midnapore and two from Chaibassa,* the other, 
a nondescript species from Almorah, Gymnodactylus ncbulosus, Blyth, MSS., 
allied to Cyrtodactylus marmoratus, Gray. I am not acquainted with any 
further notice as to the second species indicated, nor have I been able to find 
the specimen itself among the Society’s collections ; it is also not mentioned 
in Theobald’s Catalogue. Under these circumstances it is of course impos- 
sible to accept the suggested name for the present species, particularly also as 
Major Beddomo described already a quite distinct species from near Vizaga- 
patam under the name G. ncbulosus (Madras Joum. Med. Sc., for 1870). 
I may also at this opportunity mention that Beddome’s name G. 
maculatus, published in the same Journal, must be replaced by another 
one, there having been a G. maculatus described by Steindaehner already 
in 1866 (Novara Kept. p. 16). A similar change is required with regard to 
Beddome’s Gymn. marmoratus (M. J. M. Sc., 1870, p. 31), there having 
been a species described under the same name by Dum. and Bibron already 
in 1836 (Herp. Gen., Ill, p. 426). 
Fain. A G AMID A3. 
Japax/TTba vaeiegata, Gray. 
Gunther, Kept, of India, p. 133. 
Anderson, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1871, p. 164. 
This species has the power of greatly changing its colour. In some speci- 
mens (irrespective of sex) the irridescent green bands, in others the metallic or 
* Those are to all appearance the two Eubleph, Hardwiclcii, mentioned by Theo- 
bald on p. 33 of Cat. ltept. Asiat. Soc. Mus. 
