221 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW REPTILES AND A NEW BATRACHIAN FROM SIAM By Malcolm A. Smith, m.u.c.s., l.k.c.p., k.z.s. Types of all tlie species here desci-ibeil will be presented to the British Museum of Natural History, London. Gymnodactylas intermedia', sp. nov. Diagnosis. Intermediate between G. consohrinns Peters, and G. piilchellus (iray ; resembling tlie former in the arrangement of the praeanal pores, and tlie latter in colouration. Desirrii'fion. Ear opening suboval, vertical or slightly oblique, as hvrge as in G. palcltdlus. Head granular, with small roundecl tubercles on the occipital and temporal regions ; rostral with a median cleft above entering the nostril ; 10 or 11 upper and 10 or 11 lower labials ; symphysial triangular ; 2 or o jiairs of chin-shields, the first pair forming a long median suture. Body and limbs covered above with small granules, intermixed with small, rounded, conical tubercles, not perhaps so distinctl)-keeled as in G. jiulchellas, but quite as large ; a lateral fold of enlarged tubercles. Ventral scales inter-mediate in size between G. pulchcUus and G. consohrinus, about 40 to 45 in a transverse series. Male with a wide-angled series of 8 to 10 praeanal pores, not interrupted mesially ; enlarged scales in front and behind; no pubic groove, no femcral pores, but a series of 7 to 10 large scales separated from the pia^anal ones by an interval of about one scale. Tail above with small flat scales and rows of enlarged tubercles ; below with transverse plates. Co/oftr ( in life ^. Hreyisli brown with five dark brown cross bands bordered with pale yellow, the first band horse-shoe sliaped from eye to e}'e across the nape. Below dirty white. Dimensions. Head and body 85, tail 110 mm. T II pe specimens, d and 9, from Khao Sebab, near Chantabun. S. E. Siam. Remarl:!. Five specimens in all were obtained upon the hill, at varying elevations np to 500 metres. They were caught beneath the vol. II. M.\\-v.n:
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