HEMIDACTYLUS. 359 



snout ; the hind limb broug-ht forward comes in front of the shoulder. 

 The only perfect specimen measures rather over 7^ inches^ head 1 

 inch ; tail from anus 3'4 or rather less than the head and body. The 

 nostrils are entirely surrounded by swollen scales, usually 3, but some- 

 times 4 in numbar, considerably smaller than the anterior labials. 

 Some of these scales separate the nostrils from the rostral and labials. 

 Rostral rectangular, its height rather more than half its breadth, 

 which is more than double that of the adjoining labials. Upper labials 

 on each side about 15-16, mental pentagonal, narrower than the adjoin- 

 ing lower labials, and very much narrower than the rostral; a row of 

 enlarged chin shields along the lower edges of the anterior lower labials. 

 No enlarged or pointed scales on the upper eyelid. The whole upper 

 surface of the head, body, limbs and tail is finely and almost uniformly 

 granular. Scales of the abdomen flat, not imbricate, very little larger 

 than those of the back ; those of the chin and throat smaller, except 

 near the lower labials. Scales beneath the tail irregularly polygonal, 

 considerably larger than those of the abdomen, not arranged in longi- 

 tudinal rows. Tail not verticillate. Lower surftice of limbs and soles of 

 feet covered with smooth scales ; toes with simple cross plates, except 

 at the extremity, where they are expanded into a double disc, marked 

 beneath with radiating strige; claws retractile, minute, but present on 

 all toes. No femoral or pree-anal pores. 



" Colour (noted on living specimens) light brownish grey with broad 

 transverse wavy bands of lighter and dai^ker shades, alternating on the 

 back, tail and limbs. There are about five darker bands on the back, 

 the cross bands are closer together on the tail; lower parts white.^' 

 {Blanford, J. A. S. B. xlv. pt. ii. 1876, p. 19). 



Mr. Blandford adds, — "A few specimens of this new Gecko were 

 brought to me near the Maki Nai in the lower portion of the Kirthur 

 Range, which bounds the province of Sind on the west. The locality 

 whence the types were obtained was in the Mehur division of the Shikar- 

 poor district; this is the second species of the genus as restricted, and the 

 first which has been found in Asia; the other species P. hasselqnisti, 

 which is found in Egypt, is distinguished from this by having enlarged 

 tubercles on the back^ and the nostrils in contact with the first upper 

 labial and rostral." 



Hah.—Smd. 



Hemidactylus, Cuvier. 



Fingers and toes dilated, ovate, with a double row of transverse, 

 pneumatically adhesive plates beneath. Sides of the trunk without 

 cutaneous appendage. Toes and claws 5 on each foot. Tail with the 

 lateral edge not serrated. 



Hemidactylus cocteaui, D. et B. iii. (1836), p. 365; Cantor 

 Mai Rqyt. ip. 23 ; Gmifh. Rep. Brit. Ind. p. 109; Theoh. Rep, Brit. 

 Ind. p. 77 ; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., Src, Sind, p. 259. 



Rostral grooved above. Nostrils in its upper hinder edge, surround- 

 ed by three scales larger than those on the muzzle. Back uniformly 



