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Show 160 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, circular. Two large plates behind the rostral, with a moderate-sized azygos shield wedged into the hinder margin of their suture. General colour dark brown, paler on the head. Six cross bands, formed by about six white spots, usually involving a large tubercle. A line of white spots from the lower posterior margin of the eye, over the eye, and round the nape to the opposite eye ; a similar lunate band of spots from ear to ear over the shoulder ; an enlarged parotid-like gland on the side of the neck before the shoulder. Tail with eight white bands; the last in the specimen before me is terminal; but the tip of the tail appears to have been lost. Thirty longitudinal lines of small scales in the middle of the belly. Under surface dirty yellow, sparsely marbled with brown. Feet white-spotted. Length of body 2" 4"', tail 2" 5'". Hab. Java. HEMIDACTYLUS MACULATUS, D. & B.; Gthr. I. c. pp. 107, 108. Two specimens, male and female, from Burrabhoom have only ten and nine upper labials, the lower labials in each being eight. The femoral and praeanal pores are interrupted in the middle by the breadth of four lines of abdominal scales. Thirty-eight longitudinal series of abdominal scales. I have a specimen of this Lizard with a three-forked renewed tail, resembling a fifth limb. PHELSUMA ANDAMANENSE, Gthr. I. c. p. 112. I have dissected Blyth's type of this species, and find it to be a female. There is another bottle in this museum, without a locality or name, containing males and females of a Gecko, the latter of which agrees with this species in every particular; and as the males only differ from the females in having femoral pores, it appears that the males and females are of one species with P. andamanense, and that this species has femoral pores like its near allies. These structures in the unnamed specimens extend along nearly the whole thigh; and the series is directed forwards to the mesial line, where it is continuous with the one of the other side; they vary in number from twenty-nine to thirty-two. The chin-plates selected by Blyth as a specific character seem to vary ; for the specimen which has given rise to these remarks, and which was only lately received from the Andamans, and is also a female, has these shields differently arranged from the type, with which, however, it is identical in every other respect. It is curious to observe that the variation that occurs in this specimen is in the direction of the arrangement that prevails in the nearly allied Mauritian form, in which a pair of shields lying side by side are in contact with the chin one, which has three or four larger ones on either side of it. In Blyth's specimen, a single shield lies behind the chin-shield, with three or four shields of nearly equal size on either side of it. Three of the specimens without locality show a similar variation to the one just described ; one is intermediate; and only two show the single |