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50. Alsophylax tuberculatus. 



Bunopus tuberciilatus, Blanf. A. M. X. II. (4) xili, 1874, p. 454 : 

 id. Eastern Persia, ii, p. 348, pi. xxii. fig. 4 ; Blurray, Zoo!. Siiid, 

 p. 304. 



Alsopbylax tuberciilatus, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 20. 



Head moderate ; snout obtuse, a little longer than the diameter 

 of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; 

 forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening elliptic, vertical, 

 neai'ly half the diameter of the eye. Body moderately depressed. 

 Limbs moderate ; digits slender, the inferior lamella' furnished 

 with projecting tubercles. Head covered with large granules, 

 smaller and intermixed with round tubercles on the temporal and 

 occipital regions ; I'ostral sub{[uadrangu]ar, not much broader 

 tbau deep, with median cleft aI)ove ; nostril pierced between the 

 rostral, the first labial, and tliree nasals ; about 10 or \'2 upper and 

 8 to 10 lower labials ; mental subtrapezoid, broader than long ; no 

 chin-shields; gular granules minute. Back co\ered witli small irre- 

 gular flat granules, intermixed with large trihedral tubercles, forming 

 about fourteen irregular longitudinal series. Abdominal scales 

 rather small, subhexagonal. Males with 7 or 8 praeanal pores, 

 forming a slightly angular series. Tail cylindrical, slightly 

 depressed, verticillate, with rings of keeled tubercles; no enlarged 

 scales inferiorly. Colour sandy, with darker spots which may 

 more or less take the form of cross-bands on the back and tail : a 

 darker streak on the side of the head, passing through the eye, 

 sometimes meeting its fellow on the occiput, sometimes extending 

 to the side of the body ; lower surfaces white. 



From snout to vent 2*1 inches ; tail 2. 



Hub. Abounds in parts of Baluchistan, uudei- 3000 feet of 

 elevation, being found in houses and under stones on hill-sides, &e. 

 Occurs also in Sind. in Sdiitli-eastern Persia, and on the coasts of 

 the Persian Cluir. 



Genus GYMNODACIYLUS, 

 Spix, Spec. nov. Laceit. p. 17, 182-5. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, cylindrical or slightly depressed at the 

 base ; the two or three distal phalanges compressed, forming an 

 angle with the basal portion of the digits ; the claw between two 

 enlarged scales, the lower of which is more or less deeply notched 

 under the claw ; digits beneath with a row of more or less distinct, 

 transverse plates. Body variously sealed. Pupil vertical. Males 

 with or without pra^mal or femoral pores. 



Di.strihuiion. Borders of the Mediterranean; Southern Asia; 

 Australia ; islands of the Paciiic ; Tropical America. Some 37 

 species are known. 



