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lu general character allied to G. kadihemis, but the shields on 

 the top and sides of head are coarser and carinated, the enlarged 

 tubercles on the bod\ T larger and closer together, in about 12 

 longitudinal series, separated by one or two rows of minute granu- 

 lar scales, and each of the trihedral tubercles is as large as the 

 opening of the ear ; tail verticillate, above with similar sharply 

 keeled tubercles ; a row of enlarged subcaudals ; about eleven 

 upper and eight or nine lower labials ; two pairs of enlarged chin- 

 shields ; 18-20 longitudinal rows of scales across the belly, with 

 several rows of small scales at the sides ; 32-34 femoral pores (in 

 the males) continuous in the praeanal region. The fore limb reaches 

 to half the length of the snout, or the end of it, and the hind limb 

 is somewhat more than half the length of head and body. The 

 colour resembles kacWiensis, there being five or six indistinct trans- 

 verse rows of dark brown spots on the upper side. 



The above description is that given by Stoliczka from specimens 

 obtained in the Punjab Salt Eange and referred by him to Eich- 

 wald's G. caspius. It appears certain, from recent remarks by 

 iStrauch, that the Punjab form is not G. caspius, but very probably 

 the Turkestan G. fedtscJienkoi, recently distinguished from 

 G. caspius. However, neither Strauch nor I myself have been 

 fortunate enough to examine Punjab specimens. 



52. Gymnodactylus scaber. 



Stenodactylus scaber, Riipp. Atlas, Rept. p. 15, pi. iv, fig. 2. 

 Gymnodactylus scaber, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 27. 



Head moderate ; snout slightly longer than the diameter of the 

 orbit, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-open- 

 ing ; eye large, forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening rather 

 small, elliptical, vertical. Body moderate. Limbs long, the fore 

 limb reaching as far as the tip of the snout, the hind limb 

 reaching articulation of neck ; digits long and slender, cylindrical 

 at the base, with well-developed lamellse below. Snout covered 

 with large convex polygonal granules ; hinder part of head with 

 small granules intermixed with roundish tubercles ; rostral 

 quadrangular, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; ten upper and 

 eight or nine lower labials ; mental triangular or pentagonal, not 

 longer than broad ; two pairs of chin-shields, median largest and 

 forming a suture behind the point of the mental. Body covered 

 above with irregular small flat scales and large trihedral subtrian- 

 gular tubercles, forming 12 or 14 longitudinal series ; these tubercles 

 are not so large as in G.fedtschenkoi, though, as in that species, much 

 larger than the interspaces between them, the diameter of the largest 

 not quite equal to half that of the eye ; they are strongly keeled. 

 Abdominal scales large, cycloid-hexagonal, imbricate, smooth, in 

 about 20 longitudinal series in the middle of the belly. Male 

 with five or six praeanal pores. Tail feebly depressed, tapering, 

 above with rows of large spinose trihedral tubercles, beneath 



