TAEENTOLA MATJEITANICA. 87 
1. Cairo. Dr. Walter limes. 
7. Abukir, on the walls of old windmills. 
1. Mandara, east of Alexandria. Dr. Walter Innes. 
2. Ramleh, east of Alexandria. 
1. El Khreit, to the west of Lake Mareotis. 
12. Marsa Matru, 150 miles to the west of Alexandria. 
Body short and stout, depressed. Head depressed ; snout as long as or slightly 
exceeding the interval between the eye and the ear ; a supraorbital bone ; ear devoid 
of conical tubercles at its anterior margin ; eight or nine upper and seven to ten lower 
labials, the last of the former minute; nostril generally defined by the rostral, first 
labial, and three nasals ; rostral twice as broad as high ; breadth of the mental about 
two-thirds of its length ; chin-shield on each side in contact with the labials. Upper 
surface of the head from the occiput forwards is covered with polygonal, convex, more 
or less tubercular granules, and the temporal region with scattered large keeled 
tubercles ; behind the ear and on the sides of the neck and body there are prominent 
tubercular rosettes, each consisting of a large keeled tubercle with some small ones 
around it, the tubercles on the middle of the back consisting of about three rows of 
large and strongly keeled sessile tubercles ; all the dorsal tubercles are arranged in 
transverse series, while those on the upper surface of the limbs are irregularly 
distributed ; the interspaces between the tubercles are occupied by fine granular scales. 
Scales of the under surface flat, hexagonal, and slightly imbricate. Tail with broad 
well-marked verticils, margined with strong, backwardly directed, large, sharply conical 
tubercles. Thirteen lamella? on pollex and hallux, and twelve on the fourth digit. 
General colour yellowish brown or pale sandy yellow, occasionally marbled more or 
less with darker, or with short dark transverse dorsal bands, six in number, rare in 
Egyptian specimens, which, however, have generally indications of a dark line from the 
snout to behind the ear, with dark lines on the upper surface of the head, and the 
labials feebly dark-spotted. Tail generally barred brown and yellowish towards its 
end. Underparts whitish. 
Measurements of an adult : snout to vent 77 millim., tail 78. 
I have not observed this species to the south of Cairo, but it is quite possible that 
it may occur there. It is, however, essentially a species of the semi-desert and desert 
land along the sea-face of the delta ; but it is not nearly so common as T. annularis 
is in the Nile valley proper. Its range extends eastwards to Arabia and westwards to 
Mogador, and may be said also to embrace the shores of the Mediterranean. 
It is generally found under stones, on old walls, and occasionally in inhabited houses. 
I caught it during the daytime on the stone walls of old windmills at Abukir. 
