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

 rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; ten upper and eight lower 

 labials ; mental large, pentagonal, longer than broad ; two pairs of 

 chin-shields, median largest and forming a short suture behind the 

 point of the mental. Body covered above with irregular smaU flat 

 scales and large trihedral subtriangular tubercles, forming fourteen 

 longitudinal series ; these tubercles are very large, slightly broader 

 than long, the diameter of the largest equalling three fifths the 

 diameter of the eye ; the keel is very sharp, terminating in a small 

 spine on the largest tubercles. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, 

 imbricate, smooth, in twenty-six longitudinal series in the middle of 

 the beUy. Male with a long continuous series of about twenty 

 femoral and praeanal pores. Tail rounded, tapering, slightly de- 

 pressed, above with rows of large spinose trihedral tubercles, infe- 

 riorly with a median series of enlarged transverse plates. Sandy- 

 coloured above, with rather indistinct darker transverse bands; 

 lower surfaces white. 



Total length 115 millim. 



Head 18 



Width of head 12-5 „ 



Body 42 



Fore limb 26 „ 



Hind limb 37 „ 



Tail (injured) 55 „ 



Turkestan; Punjab? 



a. S- Krasnowodsk. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 



2. Gymnodactylas scaber. 



Stenodactylus scaber, Hiipp, Atl. N. Afr., Rept. p. 15, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 Gymnodactylus scaber, part., Dum. 8f JBibr. iii. p. 421. 

 Gonyodactylus (Cyrtopodion) scaber, Fitz. Syst. Rept. p. 93. 

 Gymnodactylus geckoides (non Spix), Sehreib. Herp. Eur. p. 482. 



scaber, Murray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xiv. 1884, 



pp. 102, 110. 



Head moderate, narrower and smaller than in the preceding; 

 snout slightly longer than the diameter of the orbit, longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; eye large, 

 forehead very slightly concave ; ear- opening rather small, elliptical, 

 vertical. Body moderate. Limbs long, the fore limb carried for- 

 wards, reaching as far as the tip of the snout, the hind limb 

 reaching articulation of neck ; digits long and slender, cylindrical 

 at the base, inferiorly with well-developed lamellae. Snout 

 covered with large convex polygonal granules, which are consider- 

 ably smaller than in G. caspius ; hinder part of head with small 

 granules intermixed with roundish tubercles ; rostral quadrangular, 

 with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, 



