7. STENODACTTLTTS, 17 



mixed 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 surface whitish. 



Total length 84 millim. 



Head 14 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Body 35 „ 



Fore limb 19 „ 



Hind Hmb 26 „ 



TaU 35 „ 



^ Sind. 



a. ?. Near Rohri. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. (Type.) 



2. Stenodactylus guttatus. (Plate III. fig. 2.*) 



Geofr. Descr, Egypte, pi. v. fig. 2. 



Ascalabotes sthenodactylus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl, p. 102. 



Stenodactylus guttatus, Ouv, R. A. 2nd ed. ii. p. 58 ; Dum. ^ Bibr, 



iii. p. 434 ; Stramh, Erp. AJg. p. 24; Peters, Mm, Berl, Ac, 1880, 



p. 306. 

 Trapelus savignyi, Aud, Descr, Egypte, Hept., Suppl. p. 167, pi. i. 



figs. 3 & 4. 

 Stenodactylus elegans, Mtz. Syst. Rept. p. 89. 

 mauritanicus, Quick. Expl. Sc. Alg,, Rept. p. 5, pi. i. fig. 1 ; 



A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 47, and Arch. Mus, viii. p. 87 ; Strauch, 



I. c. p. 25. 



Head very variable in shape, more or less depressed; snout 

 rounded or more or less pointed, as long as the diameter of the 

 orbit, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; 

 eye very large ; ear-opening oval, oblique, not half the diameter of 

 the eye. Body moderately elongate, depressed. Limbs long and 

 slender; digits elongate, scarcely depressed, feebly denticulated 

 laterally ; the transverse inferior lamellae tricarinate. Head covered 

 with small keeled granular scales, hexagonal on the snout ; rostral 

 broader than high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced in the 

 middle of a slight swelling, between the rostral, the first labial, 

 and three nasals ; eleven to thirteen upper, and ten to twelve lower 

 labials ; mental quadrangular ; no chin-shields. Body covered with 

 small flat juxtaposed scales, which may be slightly keeled on the 

 back and are always so on the belly. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 probably prehensile, covered with smaU juxtaposed keeled scales. 

 Light butt' or sandy above, with round whitish spots inclosed in 

 the meshes of a brown network; tail with brown annuli; back 

 sometimes with rather indistinct dark cross bauds ; lower surfaces 

 white. 



* Lower surface of fourth toe, X 4. 



