34 GECKONID^. 



13. Gymnodactylus trachytlepharus. 



Gymnodactylus trachyblepharus, Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. ix. 1874, 



p. 138, pi. i. fig. 3. 

 Saurodactylus (Quedenfeldtia) trachyblepharus, Boettg. Abh. Senck. 



Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 126. 



Head rather broad and depressed ; snout rounded ; ear-opening 

 transversely oval. Limbs slender ; digits long and slender. Upper 

 surfaces covered with uniform small round scales, largest on the 

 snout; upper eyelid with several projecting triangular scales on 

 its free border ; rostral pentagonal, nearly twice as broad as high, 

 with median cleft above ; nostril between the rostral, the first 

 labial, and four nasals ; seven upper and six lower labials ; mental 

 large, subtriangular ; chin-shields very small. Abdominal scales 

 rather large, subhexagonal. No femoral nor praoanal pores. Tail 

 slender, depressed, covered above with uniform small scales, infe- 

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

 olive above ; tail with rather indistinct yellowish cross bands. 



Total length 97 miDim. 



Head 10-5 „ 



Tail 57 „ 



Mogador. 



14. Gymnodactylus stendneri. 



Gymnodactylus steudneri, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1809, p. 788. 



Digits well developed and of the same proportions as in O. scaber 

 Ear-opening very small. Head granulate, the granules a little 

 larger and polygonal on the snout ; nostril between the rostral, the 

 first labial, and two nasals ; nine upper and seven lower labials ; 

 mental wedged in between two trapezoid chin-shields, on the side of 

 which are a larger and a smaller shield. Body and tail covered with 

 uniform smooth imbricate scales, those on the belly being of the same 

 size as those on the back. Bluish-white, with dark-brown markings, 

 viz. a band from the nostril through the eye and above the ear to 

 the middle of the neck, three rows of irregular spots on the body, 

 a cross band on the neck, a second on scapular region, and others 

 on the tail, and irregular spots on outer side of limbs. From snout 

 to vent 30 millim. 



Sennaar. 



15. Gymnodactylns nebulosus. (Platb IV. fig. 1.) 



Gymnodactylus nebulosus, Beddome, Madras Joum. Med. Se. 1870 ; 

 Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 226. 



speciosus, Bedd. I. c. 



collegalensis, Bedd. I. c. 



frenatus, juv., Giinfh. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 86. 



Head rather large, oviform, generally very convex, sometimes 

 more depressed ; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit or 



