50 THE REPTILES OF EGYPT. 
BUNOPUS. 
Bunopus, Blanford, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 454. 
Digits straight, slender, not dilated, covered below with tubercularly swollen, 
transverse lamellae. Body-scales above granular, with enlarged tubercles ; ventral 
scales imbricate. Pupil vertical. Tail verticillate. Praeanal pores. 
Bunopus blanfordii, Strauch. (Fig. 4.) 
Bunopus blanfordii, Strauch, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (vii. ser.) xsxv. 1887, p. 61, pi. figs. 13 & 14; 
Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, pp. 21, 111. 
Body somewhat slender and slightly depressed ; head elongately oval ; snout rather 
long, pointed and spatulate; nostril formed by the rostral, first labial, and three 
nasals ; ear an elongately oval, vertical slit. Upper and lower labials variable, 10 or 
11 of the former, and 9 or 10 of the latter ; a few enlarged granules behind the mental 
and along the lower labials. Fore limb reaching to the snout or falling slightly short 
of it, not reaching the groin; hind limb reaching to the axilla or to the shoulder. 
Transverse lamellae of digits dentate at their free borders, which are more or less swollen, 
feebly bitubercular, and projecting in profile. Body covered with small, unequal, 
subifnbricate, almost granular scales, with numerous large trihedral tubercles, some 
smaller than others, scattered among them and arranged somewhat in 14 longitudinal 
rows. Scales on the snout generally hexagonal, more or less convex, largest before 
the eyes ; from between the eyes backwards to the occiput the head is sparsely covered 
with minute granules, with numerous rounded, smooth, convex tubercles, some larger 
than the others, largest on the occipital and temporal regions ; a few large ones at the 
angle of the mouth, and 2 or 3 at the anterior border of the ear. The tubercles of the 
occiput, as they are traced backwards, pass gradually into the large trihedral tubercles 
of the back. The humerus with some large keeled scales and a few enlarged tubercles, 
the latter also present among the scales on the hind limb. The scales on the under 
surface of the head are small granules, gradually increasing in size backwards towards 
the lower part of the abdomen, where they are about one-fourth the size of the largest 
dorsal tubercles ; on the chest and backwards they are feebly imbricate, somewhat 
cycloidal with finely dentate free ends, more or less carinate on the chest, but less so 
posteriorly, where they may be smooth or obscurely keeled. A line of enlarged scales 
across the praeanal region and prolonged on to the thighs ; praeanal and femoral pores 
present in the males, the latter seldom extending beyond the middle of the thigh, 
but in others occurring interruptedly along the thigh for a considerable part of its 
extent ; 10 to 20 pores in continuous series on the praeanal area, and as many as 
