72 GECKONIDJE. 



than, the diameter of the orbit, or the distance between the eye and 

 the ear-opening ; eye large ; forehead not concave ; ear-opening 

 subelliptical, vertical, one third or two fifths the diameter of the 

 eye. Body feebly depressed, rather short. Limbs very long and 

 slender ; the hind limb if carried forward reaches the eye ; the fore 

 limb being stretched forward, the wrist attains the tip of the snout 

 or slightly beyond; digits long and slender, unequal. Head 

 covered with flat granules, largest on the snout ; rostral broader 

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

 rostral, the first labial, and three rather swollen nasals; 13 or 14 

 upper and 10 or 11 lower labials ; mental elongately trapezoidal, twice 

 as long as broad ; no chin-shields. Body covered above with small, 

 rather irregular, flat granules, intermixed with rather numerous 

 scattered round flat tubercles. Ventral scales small, roundish- 

 hexagonal, juxtaposed or subimbricate, smooth. Male with two 

 praeanal pores. Tail very thin and rounded, of nearly the same 

 thickness to the end, covered above with smooth imbricate elongate 

 squarish scales, beneath with a row of larger plates. Greyish 

 brown or sandy above, more or less dotted with darker, especially 

 on the sides of the head and neck ; usually a dark cross band on 

 the back of the neck and four or five others on the back. Lower 

 surfaces white ; throat more or less brown dotted. 



From snout to vent 2'5 inches ; tail 2-7. 



Hob. Baluchistan ; in barren stony plains up to 3000 feet. 



Genus PRISTURUS, 

 Kiippell, N. Wirbelth. Abyss., Kept. p. 16, 1835. 



Digits slender, clawed, cylindrical at the base ; the distal pha- 

 langes compressed, forming an angle with the basal portion of the 

 digits, the lower surface of which has a row of plates. Body not 

 depressed, covered -with uniform granules. Tail compressed, 

 keeled. Pupil circular; eyelid distinct all round the eye. No 

 prseanal or femoral pores. 



A genus of diurnal Geckos, comprising 6 species, inhabiting the 

 shores and Islands of the Eed Sea and the Persian Gulf. The 

 following species has recently been added to the fauna of Sind by 

 J. A. Murray. 



70. Pristurus rupestris. 



Pristurus nipestris, Blanford, A. M. N. H. (4) xiii, 1874, p. 454 ; 

 id. Eastern Persia, ii, p. 350, pi. xxiii, fig. 1 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, 

 p. 365, pi. , fig. 1 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. p. 53. 



Head short and high; snout acuminate, If to \\ diameter of 

 orbit ; forehead scarcely concave ; ear-opening oval, oblique, about 

 one third the diameter of the orbit. Limbs long, the hind limb 

 when stretched forwards reaching the ear-opening or between 

 the shoulder and the ear-opening ; digits long and slender. Snout 



