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TEOPIOCOLOTES. 
Tropiocolotes, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1880, p. 306. 
Digits slightly laterally compressed, straight, not dilated, covered below with ribbed 
or keeled, slightly imbricate, transverse lamellae ; no lateral fringe. Body covered 
above and below with imbricate, strongly keeled, or nearly smooth scales. Lower 
eyelid rudimentary, upper feebly developed ; pupil round. Large chin-shields. Prse- 
anal pores present or absent ; no femoral pores. 
The transverse lamellae besides being slightly imbricate have their free margins 
somewhat dentate. Twelve to thirteen lamellae are present on the second and third 
toes of T. tripoliianus, and fifteen to twenty on the corresponding digits of T. steudneri. 
External to each lamella there is a small leaf-like scale, and over the dorsum of each 
digit there are generally four or five oval, imbricate, somewhat pectinate scales. 
Tropiocolotes teipolitanus, Peters. (Plate IV. fig. 8.) 
Tropiocolotes tripolitanus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1880, p. 300, pi. — . fig. 1 ; Blgr. Trans. Zool. 
Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 108 ; Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 97. 
Stenodactylus tripolitanus, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. i. 1885, p. 19. 
6 specimens from around the Pjramids of Gizeh, under stones. 
Head oval, nearly flat above ; snout exceeding the distance between the posterior 
border of the eye and the ear, somewhat pointed : eye two-thirds of the length of the 
snout ; ear small, round, less than one-third the diameter of the eye, slightly below 
the level of the commissure of the mouth ; nostril defined anteriorly by the rostral, 
below by the first labial, and posteriorly and superiorly by two small, scale-like nasals ; 
rostral with a deep groove on its upper surface ; 7 to 9 upper, and 6 or 7 lower labials, 
those below the eye very small ; mental triangular, as broad as the rostral, with one 
pair of large chin-shields behind it, in contact with one another, with the mental, two 
labials, and with some small plates, larger than the neighbouring granules lying along 
their hinder borders. The fore limb when laid forwards reaches to the middle of the 
snout, and the hind limb to the axilla. Digits moderately long, very slightly 
compressed. Claws feeble, curved. Tail exceeds the distance between the snout and 
the vent by nearly one half ; it is thick, cylindrical, and tapers to a point. The scales 
on the side and upper surface of the snout are juxtaposed and feebly keeled, and those 
on the temporal region are small and strongly keeled. The dorsal scales and those on the 
limbs and on the upper and under surface of the tail are of moderate size, more or less 
