10. ACANTHODACXYLXTS. 



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5. Acanthodactylus micropholis. 



Acanthodactylus micropholis, lUaiif. Ann. S) Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 

 1874, p. .3;J, and E. Persia, Zool. p. ;38."5, pi. xxxi. fig. 2 ; Bouleng. 

 Proc. Zuiil. Soc. 1881, p. 74o, pi. Ixiii. fig. 3; Lataste, Ann. Mtis. 

 Gmov. (2) ii. 1885, p. ;'30;J. 



Snout obtuse. Three supraoculars, the fourth being broken up 

 into granules, the first usually separated from the second by a series 

 of granules ; subocular usually bordering the lip ; temporal scales 

 smooth ; front edge of the ear very feebly denticulated. Dorsal 

 scales more or less strongly keeled, very small on the nape, gra- 

 dually increasing in size towards the posterior part of the back, 

 where they are very much smaller than the caudals, rhomboidal, 

 feebly imbricate. Ventral plates broader than long, in 10 longitu- 

 dinal series. Praianals usually small, irregular or with a mediau 

 series of transversel)' enlarged ones. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the tympanum or the eye. Digital denticulations mode- 

 rately developed, much shorter than the diameter of the correspond- 

 ing part of the toe, usually more developed on the outer than on the 

 inner edge of the fourth toe *. Upper caudal scales keeled ; basal 

 subcaudals smooth or obtusely keeled. Grey above, with white 

 longitudinal lines on the body and round spots on the limbs ; the 

 interspaces between the light lines frequently blackish, with a series 

 of small round white spots. 



6. 2, 



millim. millim. 



Total length 187 — t 



Head 15 14 



AVidth of head 10-5 10 



From end of snout to fore limb 26 24 



from end of snout to vent 62 60 



Fore limb 26 24 



Hind limb 48 43 



Tail 125 — 



Baluchistan, South-eastern Persia. 

 a-h. S 2 . Magas, Baluchis'an. 



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Bampur, Baluchistan. 

 Near Piigan, Xarmashir, 

 S.E. Persia. 



W. T. Blanford.Esq. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



6. Acanthodactylus savignyi J. 



Lacerta savignvi. And. Descr. Egypte, Pept., Suppl. p. 172, pi. i. 



fig. 8 ; M.-E'dw. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. 1829, pp. 73, 85. 

 Acanthodactylus savignyi, part., Vaill. Miss. Revoil atix Pays Comalis, 



Kept. p. 19. ' 

 vaillanti, Lataste, Ami. Mtis. Gmov. (2) ii. 1885, p. 509. 



* The digital structure described by Lataste is abnormal, 

 t Tail lost. 



X Described from a specimen from Somaliland in the Paris Museum (no. 

 6484, type of A. vaillanti). 



