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DR. J. ANDERSON ON PERSIAN, 



[Mar. 5, 



The bands are lost on the head, where their place is taken by black 

 spots with whitish centres. Some of the bands run into each other, 

 so that the transverse arrangement is not perfect. Labials with 

 black margins, and sides of neck and body black, reticulately spotted 

 on a yellow ground. 



Under surface immaculate. 



Hah. Bushire, Persia. 



This Lizard has been figured no less than three times — first by its 

 discoverer, Olivier, afterwards by Geoffrey, and lastly by Gervais in 

 the * Dictionnaire Universelle d'Histoire Naturelle ;' and it is doubt- 

 ful whether Geoffroy's figure excels the first, which certainly the 

 last-mentioned does not. 



GeckotidjE. 



Hemidactylus persicus, n. sp. (Fig. 2.) 



Back covered with numerous white, rather large, trihedral tuber- 

 cles, with blackish-brown ones intermixed ; nearly all the tubercles 

 about half the size of the opening of the ear, which is longitudinally 

 crescentic, the concavity being directed forwards. There are no tu- 



Hciiiidactylus persicus. 



bercles on the side of the neck ; and those on the nape are less than 

 half the size of those on the loins, where they have a tendency, as 

 in the body generally, to be arranged in longitudinal rows, fourteen 

 such lines occurring before the loins ; all the tubercles are minutely 

 striated in a radiate manner from their heads. A patch of large 

 rounded granules between the nostril and eye, and another behind 

 the nostril. The ventral scales are small, and forty-five to fifty rows 



