18 GECKOKID-ffil, 



Total length 98 miUim. 



Head 17 „ 



Width of head 12-5 „ 



Body 41 „ 



Fore limb 23 „ 



Hind Umb 30 „ 



TaU 40 „ 



North Africa ; South-western Asia. 



a. cJ. Egypt. V 



6-c. c? ?. Cairo, Sir R. Owen [P.]. 



d. c?. Siaaitic Peninsula. H. C. Hart, Esq. [C.]. 



e. 2 . Mount Sinai. 



f. S . Dead Sea. Rev. H. B. Tristram [C.]. 



g. c?. Jaffa. 



3. Stenodactylus wilkinsonii. (Plate III. fig. 3.*) 



Stenodactylus guttatus (non Cuv.), Gray, Cat. p. 177. 

 Tolarenta wilkinsonii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 58. 



Snout acutely pointed. Limbs very slender and elongate ; digits 

 slender, very feebly denticulated laterally. Scales flat, small, slightly 

 keeled, subimbricate, Nostril pierced in the centre of a very strong 

 swelling between the first labial and three nasals ; fourteen upper 

 and twelve lower labials. Otherwise as in S. guttatus. Brown 

 above, white-spotted. 



Total length 94 mUlim. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head 9 „ 



Body 38 „ 



Fore limb 23 „ 



Hind limb 30 „ 



Tail 41 „ 



Egypt. ^ 



c. Bad state. Egypt. Sir J. G, Wilkinson [P.], (Type,) 



4. Stenodactylus petersii. (Plate III. fig. 4.) 



Head moderately depressed ; snout pointed, as Ipng as the dia- 

 meter of the orbit, or the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening ; latter small, roimd. Body and limbs rather slender ; 

 digits elongate, scarcely depressed, feebl}' denticulated laterally; 

 the transverse inferior lamellae tricarinate. Head covered with 

 large convex granules ; rostral as high as broad, with median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and two 

 nasals ; nine upper and eight lower labials ; mental large, tri- 

 angular ; two pairs of chin-shields. Body covered with rather large 

 cycloid imbricated scales, which are feebly keeled on the back and 



* Profile of head, x 2. 



