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50. Alsophylax tuberculatus. 



Bunopus tuberculatus, Blanf. A. M. N. H. (4) xiii, 1874, p. 454; 



id. Eastern Persia, ii, p. 348. pi. xxii. fi<?. 4 ; Murray. Zoo!. Sind, 



p. 364. 

 Alsophylax tuberculatus, Bouleny. Cat, Liz. i, p. 20. 



Head moderate ; snout obtuse, a little longer than the diameter 

 of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; 

 forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening elliptic, vertical, 

 nearly half the diameter of the eye. Body moderately depressed. 

 Limbs moderate ; digits slender, the inferior lamella furnished 

 with projecting tubercles. Head covered with large granules, 

 smaller and intermixed with round tubercles on the temporal and 

 occipital regions ; rostral subquadrangular, not much broader 

 than deep, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the 

 rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; about 10 or 12 upper and 

 8 to 10 lower labials ; mental subtrapezoid, broader than long ; no 

 chin-shields; gular granules minute. Back covered with small irre- 

 gular flat granules, intermixed with large trihedral tubercles, forming 

 about fourteen irregular longitudinal series. Abdominal scales 

 rather small, subhexagonal. Males with 7 or 8 prseanal pores, 

 forming a slightly angular series. Tail cylindrical, slightly 

 depressed, verticillate, with rings of keeled tubercles ; no enlarged 

 scales inferiorly. Colour sandy, with darker spots which may 

 more or less take the form of cross-bands on the back and tail ; a 

 darker streak on the side of the head, passing through the eye, 

 sometimes meeting its fellow on the occiput, sometimes extending 

 to the side of the body ; lower surfaces white. 



From snout to vent 2*1 inches; tail 2. 



Hub. Abounds in parts of Baluchistan, under 3000 feet of 

 elevation, being found in houses and under stones on hill-sides, &c. 

 Occurs also in Sind, in South-eastern Persia, and on the coasts of 

 the Persian Gulf. 



Genus GYMNODACTYLUS, 



Spix, Spec. nov. Lacert. p. 17, 1825. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, cylindrical or slightly depressed at the 

 base ; the two or three distal phalanges compressed, forming an 

 angle with the basal portion of the digits ; the claw between two 

 enlarged scales, the lower of which is more or less deeply notched 

 under the claw ; digits beneath with a row of more or less distinct, 

 transverse plates. Body r variously scaled. Pupil vertical. Males 

 with or without prfeanal or femoral pores. 



Distribution. Borders of the Mediterranean ; Southern Asia ; 

 Australia ; islands of the Pacific ; Tropical America. Some 37 

 species are known. 



