Vertebrate Zoology of Persia. 



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Collected by Mr. W. D. Gumming, to whom I am in- 

 debted for a large collection of reptiles, iisli, &c. from Bushire 

 and Fao, in Southern Mesopotamia. 



The synoptical table below will show the differences between 

 this species and the other allied forms of Gymnodactylus. 



I Dorsal 

 tubercles, 



Gyninodactylus caspieus, Eich- 

 wald 



brcvipes, W. Blf. 



lietcrocercus, W. Blf. 



pctrensis, Murray 



scaber, Eiipp 



kachensis, Siol. 



frajnatus, Gilnther 



Oldhami, Thcob 



18-20 



10 



12 



12 



14 

 12-14 



6-8 



30 



Abdo- 

 minal 

 scutes. 



? 



22 

 25-30 

 34-35 

 18-20 

 28-30 

 34 

 ? 



Pores. 



Femoral 



on each 



thigh. 



Pre- 



anal. 



*32-34 



... I 4 

 none 



4 

 5-6 



*48 



.... I 4 

 •40 



Labials. 



Upper. Lower 



11 



9 

 8-10 

 10-12 

 10-12 

 11-12 



11 



11 



8-9 



7 



7-8 



8-10 



8-10 



8-9 



9 



10 



6. Pristurus rupestris. 

 Pristurus rupestris, Blf. East Pers. p. .')50. 

 Seventeen specimens from Bushire and Tanjistan, 1876-77. 



7. Ceramodactylus Dor ice. 

 Ce7-amodadyhis Dorice, Blf. East Pers. p. 353, 



I have seven specimens of this lizard from Tanjistan, nearly 

 300 miles further north-east of Bunder Abbas, where Marquis 

 Doria's single specimen was obtained. 



8. Ceramodactylus affinis. 



General form of Ceramodactylus Dorice, but of a more 

 robust habit. The nostril is placed rather behind the outer 

 hind angle of the rostral, instead of immediately above and 

 between the suture of the rostral and first labial. The three 

 shields behind the nostril are flat, and not distinctly sivollen, 

 as in C. Doria. The mental is rather of a different shape, 

 having slightly concave instead of straight sides, and a very 



* In a coutinuous line on hoth thii^hs- 



