bO GECKONTDjE. 



large transversely dilated plates. Light brown or greyish above, 

 spotted with darker ; many of the tubercles white ; lower surfaces 

 white. 



From snout to vent 2 inches. 



Hob. Sind; borders of the Mediterranean and of the Red Sea. 

 Common at Karachi, among stones. 



88. Hemidactylus persicus. 



Hemidactylus persicus. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 378, fig. 2 ; 

 ~ ' 7. Cat. Liz. i, p. 131. 



Snout rather acuminate, as long as the distance between the eye 

 and the upper border of the ear-opening, 1| the diameter of the 

 orbit ; forehead concave ; interorbital space very narrow ; upper 

 eyelid strongly fringed; ear-opening large, obliquely crescentic, 

 the concavity being directed forwards and upwards, its diameter 

 equalling three fourths that of the eye. Body and limbs moderate. 

 Digits free, moderately dilated, inner well developed ; infradigital 

 lamella? obliquely curved ; 10 lamellae under the thumb, 10 under 

 the third finger, 9 under the inner toe, and 12 under the third 

 toe. Snout covered with large convex granular scales, largest 

 between the eye and the nostril ; hinder part of head with 

 minute granules, and scattered ones of a larger size. Rostral four 

 times as broad as deep (having fused with the anterior labial on 

 each side) ; nostril above the rostral, between the latter and three 

 nasals; 10 or 11 upper and 9 lower labials; mental large, tri- 

 angular, twice as long as the adjacent labial, its point between two 

 large chin-shields which are in contact behind it ; a small chin- 

 shield on each side of the large pair. Upper surface of body 

 covered with small irregular flat granules and moderately large, 

 trihedral, strongly keeled tubercles arranged in 14 or 16 rather 

 irregular longitudinal series ; the largest tubercles measure about 

 one fourth the diameter of the eye. Abdominal scales small, 

 smooth, rounded, imbricate. Male with a short angular series of 

 8 praeanal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered above with 

 small, irregular, imbricate smooth scales and scattered pointed 

 tubercles forming four or six longitudinal series, beneath with a 

 series of transversely dilated plates. Pale yellowish brown, with 

 six faint brownish transverse narrow dorsal bands, the tubercles 

 in these areas being almost black ; a dark brown streak from the 

 nostrils through the eye above the ear, with a whitish line above 

 it ; lips whitish. 



From snout to vent 2-75 inches ; tail 3-2. 



Hob. Sind; Persia. 



89. Hemidactylus maculatus. 



tnaculatus, .Dum. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gen. 



t. Liz. i, p. 132. 



sykesii, Gunth. Kept. B. I. p. 108, 



Head large, oviform ; snout longer than the distance between 



Hemidactylus maculatus, Dum. fy Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii, p. 358 (part.) ; 



Boulemj. Cat. Liz. i, p. 132. 

 Hemidactylns sykesii, Gunth. Rept. B. I. p. 108, pi. xii, fig. C. 



