DESCRIPTION OF NEW LIZARDS FROM THE DANGS. 49 



and narrowly edged with brown. A dark patch on the opercle and 

 an oblique streak below it behind the maxilla, and another vertical 

 one immediately below the middle of the eye. 



In the adolescent and young these sti'eaks are continued to below 

 the chin, and in the interspace between these two lines are two 

 subtriangular dark spots. 



Hah. — Kurrachee (Manora rocks). 



Pseudochromis PersicVs — Sp. nov. 



B. o D. g-^; Vent J-; Pect. 18; L.l. f^, not continuous; Anal ^ ; 

 L. T. 15. The height of the bod}' equals the distance between the 

 snout and the extreme hind edge of the preopercle, and is 4^ times 

 in the total length. 



Length of snout equal to the diameter of the eye. Opercles scaly. 

 Dorsal and anal fins produced posteriorly and pointed. All the rays of 

 the anal, pectoral, ventral, caudal and the posterior rays of the dorsal 

 branched ; caudal fin covered with scales for one-half its length. 



Colors. — Pale fleshy on the body. Head and snout brown, two 

 longitudinal pale bluish white lines on the preopercle; a black spot 

 behind the opercle with a vertical bluish white line through it, in 

 its anterior third. Body covered with scattered blue spots. Dorsal, 

 anal, and caudal fins with faint blue spots, not* unlike broken up 

 undulating lines. The young has a dark brown line running from 

 the snout through the e3'e to the end of the dorsal fin, which dis- 

 appears with age. 



Hab. — The Persian Gulf. I am indebted to Captain Bishop, of 

 the I. G. S. Patrick Stewart, for specimens of this fish, which 

 were collected by him in the Persian Gulf, when repairing the 

 Indo-Europeau Telegraph cable. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW LIZARD FROM THE DANGS. 

 By F. Gleadow. 

 Hemidacylus Murr^yi, Sp. nov. 

 Digits quite free ; free distal joints of digits long ; dorsal tubercles 

 strongly keeled ; not more than 8 lamellce under the inner toe and 

 11 under the median toe; 5(4 — 6) lamellce under the inner, and 

 8 (7 — 9) tinder the median toe. Tubercles in 16 — 20 (14 — 22) longi- 

 tudinal series. 



Males with 6 — 8 femoral pores on each side. 

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