8. ALSOPHTLAX 9. HOMONOTA. 21 



meeting its fellow on the occiput, sometimes extending to the side 

 of the body ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 104 millim. 



Head 13 



Width of head 9 



Body 40 



Pore limb 17 „ 



Hind limb 22 



Tail 51 „ 



Baluchistan ; Southern Persia. 



a-b. S 2 ■ Bahu Kalat, Baluchistan. ) W. T. Blanford, 



c-d. § & hgr, Mand, Baluchistan. V Esq. [0.]. 



e. (S. Near Bampur, Baluchistan. ) (Types.) 



9. HOMONOTA. 



Homonota, Grat/, Cat. Liz. p. 171. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, inferiorly with a series of lamellae, not 

 denticulated laterally. Body covered with uniform imbricate scales. 

 Pupil vertical. No praeanal nor femoral pores. 



South-eastern South America. 



1. Homonota darwinii. (Plate III. fig. 7.) 



Homonota gaudichaudi (non D. 8r B.), Gray, I. c. 

 Gymnodactylus gaudichaudii (non D. 8f B.), Bell, Zool. 'Beagle,^ 

 Rept. p. 26, pi. xvi. fig. 1. 



Head short, convex; snout rounded, longer than the diameter 

 of the orbit, as long as the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening ; latter a small oblique slit. Body rather elongate, feebly 

 depressed. Limbs moderate; digits short, rather thick. Head 

 covered with convex granules, which are largest on the snout ; 

 rostral pentagonal or quadrangular, broader than high, with median 

 cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, 

 and three nasals ; six or seven upper and five or six lower labials ; 

 mental large, pentagonal subcampanuliform ; no regular chin-shields, 

 but dilated granules border the mental and infralabials, and pass 

 gradually into the smaller granules of the throat, which are flat and 

 become imbricate as they approach the neck. Body covered with 

 uniform cycloid imbricated scales, which are a little larger on the 

 belly ; those on the back sometimes very indistinctly keeled. Tail 

 cylindrical, tapering to a very fine point, sometimes rather swollen ; 

 the scales uniform, cycloid, imbricate, smooth, rather larger in- 

 feriorly. Light brown above, marbled with darker; a somewhat 

 indistinct dark streak on the side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lower surfaces whitish. 



