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31 in interrupted series on praeanal region and thighs, but many on the thighs not 
well denned. Tail slightly depressed at the base, cylindrical beyond, fully one-third 
longer than the body and head ; scales on its upper surface arranged in well-marked 
verticils, defined posteriorly by enlarged carinate tubercles, each verticil consisting of 
about four rows of unequal scales, somewhat obtusely keeled. Under surface with 
rings of unequal, keeled scales, two or more larger scales, side by side, corresponding 
to the posterior border of the verticils. 
Rufous ashy above, with broad, brownish, transverse dorsal bands, somewhat irregular 
in form, and varying in intensity, or paler above without the bands, but with brownish 
spots of varying size, and more or less longitudinal in their arrangement, in five or six 
lines, or ihe spots when small more or less irregular in their distribution. Upper 
surface of head with similarly coloured spots, or immaculate ; a brown band before the 
eyes to the snout, varying in breadth and intensity, and prolonged behind the eyes and 
tending to be continued to the occiput. Limbs with a few obscure brown bars or spots. 
Tail barred above with brown. Under surface of body, limbs, and tail white. 
Strauch's largest specimen measured — snout to vent 41 millim., tail 42 millim. ; but 
the measurements of a male from the Hadramut with a perfect unrenewed tail were as 
follows — snout to vent 49 millim., tail 63 millim. 
I have never met with this species myself in Egypt. It was described by Strauch 
from two specimens said to have come from Egypt, and to have formed part of the 
collection of a Prince of Wurtemberg. They were forwarded to Strauch by Erber, 
under the name of Gymnodactylm scaler, to which the species has a superficial 
resemblance. As recorded elsewhere, I am indebted to Professor Pleske for having 
kindly forwarded one of the types to London for my inspection, and of this specimen 
I now give the accompanying figure (fig. 4). 
No other specimens of this species have been recorded from Egypt, but my collector, 
who accompanied Mr. Bent to the Hadramut, brought back fifteen examples of it, 
which were compared with the type from St. Petersburg. Egypt and the Hadramut 
are therefore the only two regions in which it has been observed. 
Its habits are probably the same as those of B. tuber culatus, which Mr. Blanford 
states is "found in houses and under stones" 1 . It is closely allied to that species, but 
differs from it in the body and limbs being more slender, the head more flattened, the 
snout longer, in the absence of chin-shields, in the enlarged dorsal tubercles being 
more numerous, and in the presence of elongate scales on the under surface of the tail, 
corresponding to the verticils. 
B. tuberculatus is confined to Asia. According to Mr. Blanford it abounds in 
Baluchistan, but it is also present in Sind, in South-eastern Persia, and on the coasts 
of the Persian Gulf. 
1 Zool. of Persia, 1876, p. 350. 
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