Dr. J. HE. Gray on a new Lizard. 249 
is of the same size as P. Barrabandi, but differs from that species 
in having the crown blue and the lower part of the cheeks rose-pink 
instead of yellow. 
DESCRIPTION OF A New LizAarRD OBTAINED BY Mr. HENRY 
CARTER ON THE SoutH-EaAst Coast oF ARABIA. By Dr. 
J. E. Gray, F:R.S., etc. 
Mr. Carter, so well known for his researches on the Foraminifera, 
Sponges, and Microscopic Vegetables of India, has lately sent us, 
with a series of his different species of Spongilla of India, three dried 
Lizards from the south-east coast of Arabia. One of these is a young 
Uromastix ; the others belong to an aberrant form of Geckoid Lizards, 
distantly allied to Phyllurus, which has not before occurred to me, 
and which we certainly have not in the Museum Collection. It is 
peculiar for having its tail flattened horizontally, and fringed on 
each side with linear elongated spreading scales. The scales of the 
body are minute and uniform in size. I propose to call this genus 
SPATALURA. 
Head short, high. Nostrils oblong, transverse, on the upper sur- 
face of the nose, just above the labial shields. The eyes large, with 
a slightly projecting scaly ridge above, separated from the orbit, and 
forming a kind of shade. Ears open, deep. Labial shields distinct, 
few, about eight on each side ; the rostral formed of a pair of shields ; 
the chin-shield single, like the rostrals. Head, body, and limbs 
covered with uniform small granular scales; femoral and preanal 
pores none. Limbs elongate, slender. Foot elongate. Toes elon- 
gate, compressed, very slender ; the upper side with distinct cross 
plates ; the sole with granular scales. Tail slender, oblong, depressed, 
not so long as the body, covered above and below with scales similar 
to, but rather larger and more keeled than, those of the body, and 
with a fringe on each side of crowded, elongated, slender, linear 
scales, with some smaller ones at their base. 
This genus differs from all the other naked slender-toed Geckoid 
Lizards in the form of the tail; and it is also remarkable among these 
animals for the uniform granular character of the scales, the height 
of the head, and the slenderness of its legs and feet, which give it 
much the external appearance of some of the species of Anolis, which 
are without any dorsal crest ; but it is easily known from them by 
the large-sized open eyes, destitute of any eyelids. 
SPATALURA CARTERI. 
Pale grey (dry from spirits) above, whitish beneath ; belly of one 
(male?) orange ; central part of the back, forearm, and shanks varied 
with square white spots ; sides with numerous narrow, black-edged, 
yellow streaks, which are closer together and more visible on the 
hinder part of the body. 
Hab. Island of Massera, on the eastern coast of Arabia. 
I have great pleasure in naming this beautiful species after Mr. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.3. Vol. xii. Ly 
