358 GECKOTID^. 



nearly oblong inter-parietal. Post-nasal one. A small shield above the 

 front edge of the eye, A row of six scales between the upper eyelid 

 and superciliary shields, and three shields on each side of and above 

 the fifth upper labial, forming, as it were, a nearly complete scaly ring 

 round the eye. Lower e3'elid with a transparent disCj its edge as well 

 as that of the upper eyelid margined with 7-8 scales. Ears distinct. 

 Upper labials 9. Lower labials 6-7; mental wider than the rostral with 

 one large shield behind it, and three others along the edges of the 

 labials on each side, the first of which only is in contact, the others 

 widely separated. The fore foot laid forward reaches the gape. Body 

 sub-cylindrical ; 28-30 longitudinal series of scales round its middle. 

 Tail round, tapering; sub-caudals slightly larger than the adjoining scales. 

 Toes scutate, all clawed, the palmar surface of feet covered with sub-im- 

 bricate flat scales. Colour, a rich bronze above, with an irregular and 

 broken longitudinal series of white lines down the back to nearly the 

 tip of the tail caused by every alternate or third scale in each series, 

 having a small central white streak, bordered with dark brown. There 

 are about 10 series of these on the back of the head, 15-16 across the 

 middle of the back, and 6-7 on the tail. Entire under parts white or 

 yellowish white. 



Length. — 8-9 inches, of which the tail is about one-third. 



Hab. — Kurrachee and the Persian Gulf, 



Family, GECKOTID^. 



Geckoes. 



Head broad, triangular, depressed. Back and sides generally covered 

 with tubercles or granular scales. Belly covered with rhombic imbricate 

 scales. Tongue thick and short, its basal portion attached to the 

 gullet. Eyelids generally rudimentary, not connivent. Pupil generally 

 erect. Toes generally with apparatus for pneumatic adhesions. Femoral 

 or prge-anal pores in the males only rarely absent. Eggs calcareous, 

 globular. 



Ptyodactylus, Guv. Wagl. 



Toes slender, dilated at the end, with two diverging series of plates 

 beneath. Body simple. Tail round. — {Gray, Liz. B. M. p. 143.) 



Ptyodactylus homolepiS) Blanford, Journ. As. 8oc. Bengal, vol. 

 xlv. part ii. 1876, p. ]9, 



'■'■ The general build and appearance of this Gecko are very similar to 

 those of the only other species of the genus, as restricted, P. hassel- 

 quisti.* General form rather elongate, body round, head broad and 

 high behind, wedge-shaped in front, the region in front of the eyes 

 slightly concave. Limbs elongate ; the fore limb nearly reaches the 

 thigh when laid back ; laid forward it extends beyond the end of the 



* Stellio hasselquisti, Schneider; Ptyodactylus hasselquisti, Dum. et Bibr. 

 iii. p. 378 ; P. gecko, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. p. 151. 



