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upper portion, and do not extend half way round the tail ; lower surface 

 of tail with a row of broad subcaudals. About 35 to 40 scales across the 

 abdomen ; 8 to 10 pores in males, forming a short row with an anteriorly 

 salient obtuse angle in the middle across the praeanal region, and not 

 continued on to the thighs. 



Colour uniformly greyish white. The largest specimen obtained mea- 

 sures 5"S inches, of which the tail is 32. 



I obtained 4 specimens of this species, which at the time I took for a 

 large pale variety of the common H. maculaius, in a house near E-ohri, 

 with specimens of II. Coctcei. It is probable that H. Persicus partially 

 or entirely replaces II. maculaius further to the west. I have compared 

 the specimens obtained with the type described by Dr. Anderson. 



This species is distinguished from H. maculaius by having the tuber- 

 cles on the tail smaller than on the back instead of larger, by their not 

 extending so low down on the sides of the tail, and by there being no 

 femoral pores, but only a short row of pores in the praeanal region. In 

 H. maculaius there are usually from 20 to 30 pores altogether, in H. Persicus 

 8 or 10 only. 



4. Pttodacttltjs homolepis, sp. nov. 



P. affinis P. Hasselquisti, a quo cliff ert squamis dorsalibits omnibus 

 pari'ulis subcequalibus, naribus a scuio rostrali disjunctis, et colore griseo, 

 fasciis latis undulatis trans ver sis fuse ioribus variato. 



Fa b. — In montibus Khirthar dictis ad fines occidentales provincics 

 Indices Sind dictce. 



Description. — The general build and appearance of this gecko are very 

 similar to those of the only other species of the genus as restricted, P. 

 Ilasselqioisti.* General form rather elongate, body round, head broad and 

 high behind, wedge-shaped in front, the region in front of the eyes slightly 

 concave. Limbs elongate ; the fore-limb nearly reaches the thigh when laid 

 back, laid forward it extends beyond the end of the snout : the hind-limb 

 brought forward comes in front of the shoulder. The only perfect specimen 

 measures rather over 7\ inches, head 1 inch, tail from anus 3 4, or rather less 

 than the head and body. 



The nostrils are entirely surrounded by swollen scales, usually 3, but 

 sometimes 4 in number, considerably smaller than the anterior labials. 

 Some of these scales separate the nostril from the rostral and labials. Ros- 

 tral rectangular, its height rather more than half its breadth, which is more 



* Stellio Hasselquisti, Schneider ; Ptyodaetylus Hasselquisti, Dum. et Bibr. Ill, 

 p. 378 ; P. gecko, Gray, Cat. Lizards B. M. p. 151. The name employed by Gray is 

 founded on Lacerta Gecko, Hasselquist, which however cannot be applied to this species, 

 as it is not the Lacerta Gecko of Linnseus. 



