58 GECKONiDvE. 



ventral region, intermixed with small, keeled, irregularly scattered 

 roundish tubercles on the back. Tail cylindrical, tapering to a 

 fine point, covered with small keeled scales arranged in rings. 

 Colour pale sandy, with indistinct darker transverse bands; a 

 darker line from the eye down each side; dorsal tubercles darker; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 1*9 inch ; tail 1'4. 



Hab. Sind, in sandy deserts. 



49. Stenodactylus lumsdenii. 



Stenodactylus lumsdenii, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 470, and Tr. Linn. 

 Soc. v, 1889, p. 94, pi. ix, fig. 1. 



Snout much longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance 

 between the orbit and the ear ; forehead very slightly concave ; 

 ear-opening vertically oval, one third the diameter of the eye. The 

 fore limb, stretched forwards, reaches the tip of the snout ; the 

 hind limb reaches the shoulder. Digits slender, shortly fringed 

 laterally, with feebly tricarinate inferior lamellae. Head covered 

 with small granules, intermixed with enlarged ones on the vertex, 

 the occiput, and the temples ; rostral quadrangular, nearly as 

 broad as long, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and two nasals; 10 upper and 9 

 lower labials; mental trapezoid, broader than long; no chin- 

 shields; gular granules minute. Back covered with small granules 

 intermixed with oval, very feebly keeled tubercles, forming about 

 twelve irregular longitudinal series. Ventral scales small, smooth, 

 subhexagonal, imbricate. Tail cylindrical, slightly depressed, 

 verticillate, with subequal, feebly keeled scales. Sand-colon red 

 above, with seven darker bands across the body, and dai'k brown 

 bands across the tail ; head marbled with dark brown ; a dark 

 brown band from the eye to above the ear ; lower surfaces white. 



From snout to vent 1'4 inches ; tail 1'7. 



Differs from S. orientalis by the much longer snout, longer 

 limbs, larger and more numerous dorsal tubercles, smooth ventral 

 scales, fec. 



Hctb. North Baluchistan, in the sandy desert between Xnshki 

 and the Helmand. 



Genus ALSOPHYLAX, 



Fitzinger, Syst. Kept. p. 90, 1843. 



Digits not dilated, nor bent at any of the articulations, clawed, 

 not denticulated laterally, with a series of smooth or tuberculate 

 lamellae beneath. Body covered above with juxtaposed scales 

 intermixed with enlarged tubercles, below with imbricate scales. 

 Pupil vertical. Males with praeanal pores. 



Distribution. Arid districts of Turkestan, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, 

 Baluchistan, and Sind. Six species are known, of which only one 

 has to be dealt with here. 



