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Show 1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 163 imbricate; thirty-seven longitudinal series on the middle of the belly. Praeanal pores in angular series, eleven or thirteen in number, continuous, part extending on to the thighs. Brown, with a series of moderate-sized arrow-shaped brown spots along each side of the vertebral line, with the point directed backwards, sometimes connected together, with a series of more obscure brown spots below them on the sides; the vertebral spots are confluent on the tail, forming about eleven brown rings, which encircle it, with yellowish-brown interspaces between them ; the tip black ; the nape and occiput reticulated with brown ; under surface dirty yellow. Dr. Jerdon was inclined to regard this as a form of Pentadadylus; but its strong non-retractile claws at once separate it from that genus. It is in every respect a true Gymnodactylus. Hab. Khasi Hills. EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS. Cyrtodadylus macularius, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. pp. 737, 738. Eublepharis macularius (Blyth) ; Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Museum, p. 32. Habit similar to that of E. hardwickii. Sides and back with oval conical tubercles, widely separated from each other by densely packed minute granules; the tubercles on the head, as far forward as the anterior angle of the eye, are separated from each other by the granules. Under surface covered by more elongated imbricate scales than in E. hardwickii. Twenty-seven longitudinal series on the middle of the abdomen. Eleven upper and lower labials. Nostril in a single shield above the first labial, with a moderate-sized supranasal rostral. A pair of the large chin-shields behind the mental, with four smaller ones in transverse series behind it. Fingers longer and more slender than in E. hardwickii. Tail short, verticillated and conical, almost granular above, with eight large tubercles in transverse series on the posterior margin of each verticil; under surface with numerous divided and subdivided irregular moderate-sized subcaudals. Colour in spirit uniform whitish, without any trace of bands. Blyth describes the coloration of this species in terms that would almost apply to E. hardwickii, with this difference, however, that he mentions a third black band where the hind limbs are articulated, and that the " rosy carneous interspaces" have a few black tubercles interspersed among the numerous pale tubercles. In a half-grown specimen he describes the interior of the black bands as pale and speckled with black, the margins continuing black. In his type specimen he mentions the dark line as almost having left the crown, " its blackish margins only remaining as a streak from the nostril through the eye, and continued round to join its opposite upon the occiput;" crown and cheeks mottled with dark spots more or less confluent; and the interspace from the occiput to the nape has many black tubercles. Blyth gives the length of this specimen from the snout to the vent as 3^ inches, and regards the specimen, as a young |