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with a median series of enlarged transverse plates. Sandy-coloured 

 above, bro \vn-spotted ; tail with brown aunuli; lower surfaces 

 white. 



From snout to vent 1*85 inches ; tail 2-3. 



Hob. From Egypt southwards to Abyssinia and eastwards to 

 Afghanistan and Sind (Sukkur and Laki). 



53. Gymnodactylus brevipes. 



Gymnodactylus brevipes, Blanf. A. M, N. H, (4) xiii, 1874, p. 4o3, 

 and E. Persia, ii. p. 344, pi. xxii, fig. 2; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, 

 p. 28. 



Differs from G. scaber in the following points : Limbs shorter ; 

 the fore limb reaches to between the eye and the tip of the snout, 

 the hind limb to the shoulder. Dorsal tubercles small, nearly 

 equal to the small ear-opening in size, forming ten longitudinal 

 series. Nine upper and seven lower labials. Prteanal pores four. 

 The enlarged plates on the lower surface of the tail are about 

 equally long and broad, and many of them are divided into two. 

 Colour grey, with three rather imperfect longitudinal dusky bands 

 on the back, formed of arrow-head-shaped marks ; a dusky line, 

 not very strongly marked, from the eye to the shoulder. 



Hob. Baluchistan. The only specimen known was obtained in 

 an open sandy plain, with scattered vegetation, not far from Bampur, 

 at an elevation of 3000 feet. 



54. Gymnodactylus kachhensis. 



Gymnodactylus kachhensis, Stoliczka, P. A. S. B. 1872, p. 79 ; Theob. 



Cat. p. 82 ; Bouleny. Cat. Liz. i, p. 29. 

 Gymnodactylus petrensis, Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 3(32, pi. . fig. 1. 



Allied to the preceding species. Body rather short ; fore linib 

 reaching as far as the tip of the snout or a little beyond, hind 

 limb to constriction of neck. Dorsal tubercles in 12 or 14 

 longitudinal series, smaller than those of G. scaber, similar in shape. 

 Abdominal scales in about 30 longitudinal rows. No regular series 

 of subcaudal plates. Prseanal pores four to six. Ten or eleven 

 upper and eight to ten lower labials. Ear-opening narrow, vertical. 

 Sandy-coloured above, with rather indistinct darker spots on body 

 and limbs and annuli on the tail. 



From snout to vent 1'6 inches. 



Hab. Gutch, Sind, and N.E. Baluchistan (Quetta). Common in 

 Cutch, mostly in crevices of rocks, and very rarely in houses. 



55. Gymnodactylus stoliczkae. 



Gymnodactylus stoliczkaj, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 15, pi. ii, fig. 2 ; 



Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 31 . 

 Cyrtodactylus yarkandensis, Anders. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 381, fig. 



