PTYODACTYLTJS HASSELQUISTII. 63 
1 ? . Mokattam Hills, Cairo. Dr. Walter Innes. 
1 r? • Luxor. 
2 ? . Temple of Medinet Habu. 
1 ? . Temple of Edfu. 
3 <5 and 2 2 • Houses, Assuan. 
2 d 1 and 5 2 . Temple of Philse. 
1 ? . Wadi Haifa. 
3 <J and 3 J . Wadi Haifa. O. Charlton, Esq. 
Form slender ; body slightly depressed ; head elongately or shortly oviform, slightly 
depressed ; nostrils more or less swollen, formed by the rostral, first labial, and three 
nasals; eye large. Upper labials 11 to 14, generally 13; lower labials 11 to 13, 
usually 12. Length of limbs variable, generally moderately long and slender; the 
fore limb half a finger's length in advance of the snout, or the tip of the third digit 
only reaching to between the eye and the snout ; hind limb reaches the shoulder or 
does not extend beyond the axilla ; disks only moderately large ; the lamellse vary from 
8 — 8, 8 — 9, to 9 — 9. Tail slightly depressed, with usually a feeble longitudinal sulcus 
above, more or less verticillate, with or without small tubercles on the verticils. Skin 
soft and porous ; granules moderately large, conical, smooth or carinate (Hejaz) ; 
tubercles moderate, numerous, more or less carinate ; enlarged non-carinate or carinate 
(Hejaz) granules before the eye, about twice or three times as large as the dorsal 
granules ; no enlarged tubercles on the side of the head, but some of the granules 
larger than the others ; a few enlarged tubercles on the radial section of the fore limb 
and on the hind limb generally, exceptionally only on the thighs and tibial portion, or 
rarely entirely absent on both limbs. Ventrals smooth, small, subhexagonal, imbricate, 
largest on the femoral and interfemoral areas. 
Pale sandy grey or even whitish above, but varying in accordance with its 
surroundings ; generally a brown line from the snout to the eye, continued more or 
less behind the eye above the ear to the nape of the neck, where it meets its fellow of 
the opposite side, or the nuchal portion may become broken up ; top of the head 
reticulately brown spotted. Transverse more or less V-shaped brown bands on the back, 
frequently broken up ; limbs and tail generally barred with brown ; underparts white. 
Largest Egyptian male Snout to vent 76 millirn. 
„ male from Hejaz .... „ „ 86 „ 
Ilab. The Nile valley ; and the Hejaz, Arabia. 
