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Digits slender; subdigital lamellae narrow. 

 Lipidosis. — Back bearing about twelve longitudinal rows of 

 ver}' large and prominent trihedral keeled tubercles, which are 

 in contact or almost in contact longitudinally on the hinder parts 

 and are only separated transversel}^ by minute irregular scales ; 

 keeled tubercles less close to one another on shoulders. Snout 

 covered with prominent rounded tubercles as a rule feebl}'^ keeled 

 and almost homogeneous ; tubercles on occiput similar but more 

 heterogeneous ; those on sides of head prominent and strongly 

 keeled. Upper arms and femora, except near the joints, 

 covered above with large imbricate keeled scales ; scales on 

 limb-joints small ; forearm and shin (especially latter) with large 

 non-imbricate scales above ; lower surface of limbs clad in fairly 

 uniform smooth imbricate scales. Tail bearing numerous large 

 keeled trihedral tubercles arranged on the dorsal surface and 

 sides in transverse bands ; lower surface with somewhat irregular 

 enlarged median transverse plates. Ventral surface of body with 

 smooth imbricate scales in from 15 to 18 rows and limited at 

 either side by a row of small rounded tubercles. Throat with scales 

 like those on belly ; two pairs of chin- shields, the anterior pair 

 of which meet so as to form a suture behind the mental. About 

 II upper and II lower labials. 



Pores. — A straight uninterrupted series of 32 — 34 femoral and 

 praeanal pores in the male. 



Colouration. — Fiv^e or six indistinct rows of spots arranged 

 transversely on dorsal surface ; general colour dull sandy or 

 earthy. 



Length of head . . . . 18 mm. 



Length of body .. ,. 3^ j, 



Length of tail (partly reproduced) 55 ,, 



Length of fore limb . . 20 ,, 



Length of hind limb . . 24 ,, 



Type.—^o. 6185 Rept. Ind. Mus. 



Habitat. — Salt Range, Punjab. 



This lizard, although closely related to G. fcdtschenkoi, 

 Strauch, is, to judge from Nikolski's^ figures, distinguished from 

 that species by its much larger abdominal scales, less spatulate 

 snout, differently arranged mental shields and other minor 

 characters. From G. scaber , Strauch, it is at once distinguished 

 by its longer snout and by the possession of femoral pores in the 

 male. My description is not altogether in accord with those 

 on which Boulenger based that in the " Fauna ", but the actual 

 discrepancies are small and the onl}^ specimens I have had before 

 me are those which were examined many years ago by Blyth, 

 Theobald and Stoliczka. In counting the ventral scales I have 

 omitted the little rounded tubercles that separate them from the 

 lateral tubercles, although the former are not very clearly differ- 

 entiated. 



' Herpef. Tiiranica, pi. iv, fig. 1 (1899) •'"' tedtschcnUo's 7?t'w i)i Turkestan. 



