AGAMURA. 



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QS. Gymnodactylus fasciolatus. 



Naultiniis fasciolatus, BIyth, J. A. S. B. xxix, 1860, p. 114. 

 GyruHodactylus fasciolatus, Giinih. Bept. B. I, p. 116 j Theoh. Cat. 

 p. 02 ; Boule7i(j. Cat. Liz. \, p. 44. 



Differs from G. variegatns in the smaller ventral scales, which 

 form 30 longitudinal series in the middle of the belly, and in the 

 small number of prseanal pores, viz., 5 or 6 on each side, exten- 

 ding outwards in a line with the commencement of the thigh. A 

 dark-brown band, edged behind with white, from tlie eye to the 

 occiput, where it meets its fellow of the opposite side ; a brown 

 similarly white-edged baud on the nape, with seven cross bands 

 on the body ; tail cross-barred. 



Eah. Subathu, near Simla, Western Himalayas. 



Genus AGAMURA, 

 Blanford, A. M. N. H. (4) xiii, 1874, p. 455. 



Digits slender, clawed, cylindrical at the base ; the distal pha- 

 langes compressed, forming an angle with the basal portion of 

 the digits ; the claw between two enlarged scales; digits beneath 

 M'ith a vow of phites. Body covered with small granules inter- 

 mixed with enlarged tubercles. Tail very slender, not fragile. 

 Pupil vertical. Males with or without praeanal pores. 



Distribution. Persia, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. Two species 

 are known, one of vhich inhabits Baluchistan. 



69. Againura cruralis. 



Agamura cruralis, ^/aw/. ^. M. N. H. (4) xiii, 1874, p. 455; id. 

 Eastern Persia, ii, p. .')56, pi. xxiii, fig. 3 ; Bouhny. Cat. Liz. i 

 p. 50. 





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Fig. 23. — Agamura cruralis. 

 Head short, feebly depressed ; snout as long as, or slightly longer 



