AcantJiodactylus. 



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Upper caudal scales much larger thau the posterior dorsals, oblique, 

 obtusely pointed, strongly and diagonally keeled, the basals nearly as 

 long as broad, lower feebly keeled, smooth in the basal part ; 28 or 30 

 scales in the fourth whorl. 



Greyish above, with four longitudinal series of small darker spots 

 on the back and a rather indistinct darker network on the l.)ody, white 

 beneath. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 





Particulars of the Type Si)ecimens. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 



. 73 48 16 29 11 29 23-20 23 4 



. m 50 16 30 10 28 18 19 4 



This species is established on two specimens obtained by Capt. F. C. 

 Fraser at Zobeya, Shariba, Lower Mesopotamia. The male is 

 preserved in the British Museum ; tiie female is in the Museum of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society. 



12. ACANTHODACTYLUS GEANDIS. 



AcantJiodactylus grandis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. IST. H. (8) iv, 1909, 

 p. 189, and Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1918, p. 148. 



Form stout, heavy, body depressed. Head 1;^ to 1|- times as long- 

 as broad, its length about 4 times in length to vent, its depth equal to 

 the distance between the centre or the anterior corner of the eye and 

 the tympanum ; cheeks swollen ; a lanceolate concavity from the 

 frontonasal to the middle of the frontal ; snout obtuse or pointed, as 

 long as postocular part of head, with obtuse cauthus and feebly 

 concave loreal region ; nasals rather strongly swollen. Pileus twice as 

 long as broad. ' The hind limb reaches the axil or the shoulder ; foot 

 as long as or slightly longer than the head ; fourth toe, from the base 

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