HEMIDACTYLUS FLAVIVIEIDIS. 77 
HEMIDACTYLUS. 
Hemidactylus, Cuv. Reg. An. ii. 1817. p. 47; Gray, Ann. Phil. x. (2) 1825, p. 199. 
Basal portion of the digits expanded into an oval disk, formed below by two rows 
of transverse lamella? separated from each other by a median sulcus ; distal portion of 
digits slender, the second phalanx rising from the middle of the disk ; digits clawed, 
free or somewhat webbed at the base. Pupil vertical. Praeanal or femoral pores 
present in the male. 
Hemidactylus flaviviridis, Riippell. (Plate V. fig. 5.) 
Hemidactylus flaviviridis, Riippell, Neue Wirbelth. 1835, p. 18, pi. vi. fig. 2 ; Dum. & Bibr. iii. 
1836, p. 347; Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) xxxv. no. 2, 1887, p. 33; Matschie, Sitz.- 
Ber. Ges. nat. Freund. 1893, no. 1, p. 29; Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 642; Herpet. 
Arabia & Egypt, 1896, pp. 26, 98.' 
Hemidactylus coctai, D. & B. iii. 1836, p. 365 ; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. pt. ii. 1847, 
p. 629; A. Dum. Cat. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1851, p. 39; Giinther, Rept. B. Ind. 
1864, p. 109; Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 86; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 226; Stein- 
dachner, Novara Rept. 1867, p. 13; Theobald, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxvii. pt. ii. extra no. 
1868, p. 29; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. pt. ii. 1872, p. 98; Blanford, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1876, p. 636; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. ii. 1876, p. 18 ; id. op. cit. xlviii. pt. ii. 1879, 
p. 125; Klunzinger, Zeitsch. Ges. Erdk. Berl. xiii. 1878, p. 94; Murray, Zool. Sind, 1884, 
p. 359; Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. i. 1885, p. 137; op. cit. iii. 1887, p. 485; Ann. & Mag. N. H. 
(5) xx. 1887, p. 407; Fauna Brit. Ind., Rept. & Batr. 1890, p. 92; Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 
ser. 2, xvi. (xxxvi.) 1896, p. 550 ; Parenti e Picaglia, Rett, ed Anfibi Mar Rosso, 1886, p. 14; 
Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) xxxv. 1887, p. 33; Boettger, Ber. Offenb. Ver. xxix- 
xxxii. 1892, p. 62; Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 29; Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, 
p. 865. 
Boltalia sublmvis, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1842, p. 58. 
Hoplopodion cocteaui, Fitzinger, Syst. Rept. 1843, p. 104. 
Hemidactylus bengaliensis, Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. pt. ii. 1871, p. 14. 
1. Suez. Rev. Walter Statham. 
2. Suakin. Surgeon-Captain R. H. Penton, D.S.O. 
3. Suakin. British Officers' Mess House. 
Head rather short and broad, forehead concave ; the length of the snout exceeds 
the distance between the eye and the ear by the width of the ear ; ear-opening oval, 
slightly oblique, and about half the diameter of the eye. Rostral nearly twice as broad 
as high, with a median furrow above ; nostril defined by the rostral, first labial, and 3 
nasals, but, in some instances, the rostral is excluded ; 12 to 16 upper, and 9 to 11 
lower labials. Mental much broader than the rostral, triangular, with a large chin- 
