96 



3 cT and 1 $ . Luxor Desert. 



1 (S ' AVadi Haifa. Surgeon-Captain R. H. Peuton. 



1 c? and 1 2 . Suakin. 



2 $ . Durrur, about 60 miles N. of Suakin. 



1 d" • Ras Gharib, Gulf of Suez. Mr. James Robertson. 



Steijodacttlfs peteii, n. sp. 



Trapelus savignyi, Aud. var. {non Dum. & Bibr.) op. cit. 

 p. 168; Suppl. Rept. pi. i. figs. 4. i, 4.2, and 4.3, sed non 

 Suppl. Rept. \)\. i. figs. 3. i, 3. 2, and 3. 3. 



Stenodactijlus guttatus, Dum. & Bibr. part iii. (1836), p. 434, 

 pi. 34, no. 2. 



1 6 and 2 ? . Tel el Amarua. Professor W. M. Flinders 

 Petrie, D.C.L. 



Head large, very distinct from the neck ; cheeks swollen ; 

 snout short and moderately pointed ; nostril swollen, defined by 

 tbe first labial aud three nasals ; 12 to 15 upper and 11 to 14 

 lower labials; mental large, as broad as the rostral and first 

 labial. Eye very large ; ear small, slightly oval and vertical. 

 Body covered with small smooth, slightly convex scales, generally 

 longer than broad, polygonal and somewhat smaller on the middle 

 of the back than on the sides, where they are more rounded ; 

 they are largest on the snout, hexagonal, very slightly convex 

 and rugose; scales on the limbs as large as those on the sides, 

 tending to become imbricate and feebly keeled on the humeral 

 and femoral regions ; scales on the under surface of the body 

 slightly imbricate, obscurely obtusely keeled. Under surface of 

 the digits with a longitudinal row of transverse tricariuate 

 lamellae, more or less imbricate, with two rows of small, distinctly 

 pointed scales external to it ; seven rows of scales on the upper 

 surface of the third toe, about its middle; the outer row of 

 dorsal scales of each digit forms a well-marked fringe most 

 strongly developed on the hind foot, each scale being autero- 

 postcriorly expanded at its base and curved distaljy iuto a sharp 

 point, the entire Cringe beiug slightly downwardly curved. Scales 

 on the tail arranged iu rings, largest on the upper surface, some- 

 what larger than the largest body-scales, longer than broad, aud 

 more or less strongly keeled; those of the under surface much 

 smaller and rounded. Limbs long and slender; fore limb when 

 laid forwards reaches beyond the snout, and the hiud limb iu 



