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and strongly keeled on the body, larger and imbricate towards the 

 tail, a little smaller on the sides ; 48 to 50 scales across the 

 middle of the body, 18 to 20 in a transver&e series between the 

 hind limbs. Ventral plates tessellated, forming angular transverse 

 series, as long as broad or slightly broader than long ; 29 or 30 

 transverse series, the longest containing 1 6 plates. Pracanal plate 

 small and irregular in the female ; male with a median series of o 

 transversely enlarged plates. 



18 to 23 femoral pores on each side, the two series narrowly 

 separated in the middle. Fingers feebly serrated, with 4 series of 

 scales ; toes more strongly serrated, especially on the outer side of 

 the fourth, the denticles of which are a little shorter than the 

 diameter of the toe : 19 to 23 strongly unicarinate lamellje under 

 the fourth toe. 



LTpper caudal scales much larger than the posterior dorsals, 

 oblique, obtusely pointed, strongly and diagonally keeled, the 

 basals nearly' as long as broad, lower feebly keeled, smooth in the 

 basal part ; 28 or 30 scales in the fourth whorl. 



Greyish above, with four longitudinal series of dai'ker spots on 

 the back and a rather indistinct darker network on the body, 

 white beneath. 



From end of snout to vent 73 60 millim . 



fore limb 2<t 22 



Head 19 15 



Width ofhead 13 9 



Depth of head 9 7 



Fore limb 24 20 



Hind limb 41 32 



Foot 22 18 



Tail 102 



Two specimens, male and female, were obtained by (Japt. F, C. 

 Fraser, I. M.S., at Zobeir, Shaiba, Lower Mesopotamia, and 

 presented by him to the Bombay Natural History Society. 



].n proportion and general appearance this species resembles 

 A. savujniji, Aud. [vaillanti, Lataste), but it differs from it in 

 having four series of scales round the fingei's, as in A. cantor-in, 

 Gthr., scutellattis, Aud., and grandis, Blgr., and the ventral plates 

 not forming longitudinal series. In the latter character it agrees 

 with A scuteltaius, which differ in the acutely pointed snout and 

 the stronger pectination of the toes. 



