11. AGAMT7EA. 51 



or slightly beyond; digits long and slender, unequal. Head 

 covered with flat granules, largest on the snout; rostral broader 

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

 rostral, the first labial, and three rather swollen nasals ; thirteen or 

 fourteen upper and ten or eleven lower labials ; mental elongate 

 trapezoid, twice as long as broad ; no chin-shields. Body covered 

 above with small, rather irregular, flat granules, intermixed with 

 rather numerous scattered round flat tubercles. Ventral scales 

 small, roundish-hexagonal, juxtaposed, or subimbricate, smooth. 

 [Male with two praeanal pores.] Tail very thin and rounded, of 

 nearly the same thickness to the end, covered above with smooth 

 imbricate elongate squarish scales, inferiorly with a row of larger 

 plates. Greyish-brown or sandy above, more or less dotted with 

 darker, especially on the sides of the head and neck ; usually a dark 

 cross band on the back of the neck and four [or five] others on the 

 back. Lower surfaces white ; throat more or less brown-dotted. 



Total length 135 millim. 



Head 19 „ 



Width of head 14 „ 



Body 49 „ 



Fore limb 41 „ 



Hind limb 57 „ 



Tail 67 „ 



Baluchistan. 



a-c. 2 & hgr. Bahu Kalat & Askan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types.) 



2. Agamura persica. 



Gymnodactylus persicus, A. Dum, Arch. Mus. viii. p. 481. 

 Agamura persica, Blanf. E. Persia, p. 368, pi. xxiii. fig. 4. 



Differs from the preceding in the following characters : — Head 

 more depressed. Limbs shorter, the hind limb not reaching the 

 eye, and the wrist reaching half-way between the eye and the tip 

 of the snout. The granules on the snout are quite as small as those 

 on the occiput, where there are numerous enlarged tubercles ; the 

 rostral is more than twice as broad as high, and completely divided 

 into two ; the mental is not twice as long as broad. The dorsal 

 tubercles are larger, becoming subconical on the hinder part of the 

 back ; numerous enlarged tubercles on the hind limbs. No praeanal 

 pores in the male. 



Total length 98 millim. / 



Head 16 „ ' 



Width of head 11 „ 



Body 37 „ 



Fore limb 29 „ 



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