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are no other characters sepavalint,' them gcneiicallv, thoro Joea 

 not appear to be any reason why Ceramodactylus thonld retain 

 more than subgeneric rank. 



Stenodactylus (CEEAMODACTrLUs) DORiJB, Blauford. 



Geramodactxjlus dories, Blanford, Ann. & Mag. N. II. (!■ sor.) 

 xiii. 1874, p. 454; East. Persia, vol. ii. Zool. & Geol. (l^'^). 

 p. 353, pi. xxiii. fig. 2 : Blgr. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. i. 1885, p. 13, 

 pi. ii. fig. 4*. 



Two specimens agreeing with tlie types. 



BUNOPUS BLANFORDII, Straucli. 



'Bunopus blanfordii, Strauch, Mem. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. 

 (vii. ser.) xxxv. no. 2, 1887, p. 61, pi. figs. 13 & 14. 



8 d and 7 2 ■ 



This species has hitherto been recorded only from Egypt. Tw'o 

 specimens were obtained by Eiber and described by Strauch, and 

 are preserved in the Museum at St. Petersburg. I am indebted 

 to Prof. Pleske, tlirough the kind assistance of Mr. Boulenger, 

 for the opportunity I have had of comparing one of the types 

 with these specimens from the Hadramut. There can be no 

 doubt regarding the specific identity of the African and South- 

 EasL Arabian specimens. 



This gecko is of considerable interest, as it is the only species 

 that illustrates the passage of prseanal into femoral pores. A 

 line of enlarged scales stretches across the praeaual region and is 

 prolonged on to the thighs, in the position occupied by the femoral 

 pores of other lizards. In the accompanying table, I have given 

 the total number of pores. In the cases of the low numbers, the 

 pores are essentially praeanal, but, in those in which the numbers 

 are higher, the pores pass on to the thighs, and, in the very highest 

 numbers, may be seen in interrupted series extending nearly to 

 the knee. This interrupted character and their extension over 

 varying lengths of the thighs are of considerable interest. 



Bunopiis tuherciilatus, Blanford, and B. hlanfordii, Strauch, 

 have both six rows of scales round the middle of the third toe, 

 viz., five rows of scales all of which may be referred to the dorsal 

 series, although one is lateral in position, and a longitudinal 

 median row of lamellae on its under surface. In the former 

 species, the lamellaj are somewhat swollen and tubercular, whei'eas, 

 in the latter, this character is but little marked, but the free 



