110 eECKOKIDiE. 



1. Ptyodactylus lobatus. 



Ptyodactylus gecko, Gray, Cat. p. 151. 

 Hasselquist, Seise n. Palast. p. 366. 

 Stellio gecko, part,, Schneid, Amph. Phya. ii, p. 12. 

 Gecko lobatus, Geoffr. Descr. Eyypte, Rept. p. 130, pi. v. fig. 5 ; Aud. 



eod. loc, Suppl. p. 166, pi. i. fig. 2. 



ascalabotes, Merr. Tent. p. 40. 



Ptyodactylus lobatus, Gray, Ann. Phil. (2) x. p. 498. 



guttatus, Eilpp. Atl. N. Afr., Rept. p. 13, pi. iv. 



basselquistii, Drmi. 8f Bibr. iii. p. 378, pi. xxxiii. fig. 3 ; Boettg. 



Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 194. 

 oudrii, Lataste, Le Natur. 1880, p. 299. 



General proportions varying considerably. Head large, oviform ; 

 snout a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, once and one third the diameter of the orbit ; forehead 

 concave ; ear-opening subcrescentic, vertical. Body rather short, 

 depressed ; limbs long and slender. Head covered with granular 

 scales, which are much larger on the snout. Nostril pierced in the 

 centre of a more or less marked globular swelling ; rostral and first 

 labial generally entering the nostril. Rostral generally quadrangular, 

 not twice as broad as high ; twelve or thirteen upper and ten to 

 twelve lower labials ; a row of chin-shields. Upper surfaces covered 

 with granules intermixed with small keeled tubercles ; lower sur- 

 faces with flat, smooth, slightly imbricate, small subhexagonal 

 scales, which are enlarged on the femoral and inter-femoral regions. 

 Tail slender, tapering, rounded, covered above with very small 

 scales intermixed with keeled tubercles, inferiorly with large im- 

 bricated scales. Greyish or yellowish brown above, spotted with 

 darker and with yellowish white ; lower surfaces uniform white. 



Total length 135 millim. 



Head 24 „ 



Width of head 18 „ 



Body 5i „ 



Fore limb 37 „ 



Hind limb 49 „ 



Tail 58 „ 



Algeria, Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, Arabia, Syria. 



a. S ■ Egypt. ' J. Burton, Esq. [P.]. 



b~c. cJ & hgr. Egvpt. Sir J. Wilkinson [P.J. 



d. $ . Egypt. A. Christy, Esq. [P.j. 



e. 2 . Edfou. Dr. Anderson [Pg. 



f. ^ , Between Khan Tubb Tusef Dr. Anderson [P.J. 



and Ain Mellaha. 

 ff-h. (S 5 . Sinaitic Peninsula. H. C. Hart, Esq. [C.]. 



V. 5 . Mt. Sinai. 



k.S. Jerusalem. Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



/, ^ . Jerusalem. Kev. H. K Tristram 



m.(S. Mt. Ilermon. Rev. H. R. Tristram 



«. 2 ■ Dead Sea. Rev, H. B. Tristram [C] 



[C.]. 

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