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Show 162 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, A fold of skin along the side, indicating where the abdominal terminate and the granules begin. Ten large preanal scales, and sixteen femoral pores on each side along the whole length of the thigh. Rostral notched behind and grooved, with a small hexagonal shield occupying the notch with the nasals in contact with it; nostril formed by the rostral anteriorly, first labial inferiorly, two small tuberculoid shields posteriorly, and the nasal superiorly. Ten to eleven upper labials, and eleven lower labials. Mental partially wedged in between the two large chin-shields, which form a broad suture with each other. Two rows of enlarged shields below the lower labials. Limbs and toes slender ; the basal joints are not very distinct from the terminal ones, which are strongly compressed, and are provided with transverse imbricate plates below and a series of much smaller ones on the compressed phalanges. Blyth describes the colour as "grey, beautifully spotted and marbled with black, set off with subdued white ; and the lower parts whitish, freckled on the tail with black and gradually more so to the extremity, the terminal third being almost wholly blackish; above, the tail is irregularly banded. A broad dark streak bordered with whitish behind each eye, and continued irregularly round the occiput. On the back the markings appear as irregular bands, paler internally and blackish on their zigzag borders, most difficult to describe intelligibly ; the head above is spotted and not banded." Length 6" 8'" ; tail 3" 6'". Hab. Moulmein. The walls of the nostril, the character of the rostral above, with its azygos shield impacted between the nasals, and the imbrication of the plates on the basal phalange of the toes and fingers serve, as with the other species, to connect this genus with Pentadadylus, from which it is separated, however, by its non-retractile claws and the absence of a claw-sheath. GYMNODACTYLUS KHASIENSIS. Pentadadylus (?) khasiensis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 75. Habit similar to that of G. variegatus, Blyth. Body finely granular, thickly covered with small trihedral tubercles ; upper surface of the head wholly granular. Tubercles on the base of the tail and numerous on the hind extremities, absent on the fore limbs. Tail cylindrical, considerably longer than the body, with round flat almost scaly tubercles of uniform size arranged in verticils, larger and irregular on the under surface. No enlarged tubercles on the upper surface of the tail, except those at the base ; no large subcaudals. Two large supranasal shields behind the rostral, transversely elongated, forming a suture in the middle and the upper margin of the nostril; anterior and lower margins of nostril formed by the rostral; first labial below the nostril. Ten or eleven upper, and nine lower labials. Five large, rather elongated pentagonal shields behind the mental, with a few enlarged shields behind them below the labials. Tongue elongate, notched in front. Scales on the under surface small, rounded, and |