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than double that of the adjoining labials. Upper labials on each side about 

 15 or 16. Mental pentagonal, narrower than the adjoining lower labials 

 and very much narrower than the rostral ; a row of enlarged chin-shields 

 along the lower edges of the anterior lower labials. No enlarged or pointed 

 scales on the upper eyelid. The whole upper surface of the head, body, 

 limbs, and tail is finely and almost uniformly granular. Scales of the 

 abdomen flat, not imbricate, very little larger than those of the back ; 

 those of the chin and throat smaller, except near the lower labials ; scales 

 beneath the tail irregularly polygonal, considerably larger than those of the 

 abdomen, not arranged in longitudinal rows. Tail not verticillate. Lower 

 surface of limbs and soles of feet covered with small smooth scales, toes 

 with simple cross plates, except at the extremity, where they are expanded 

 into a double disk marked beneath with radiating striae ; claws retractile, 

 minute, but present on all the toes. No femoral or prseanal pores. 



Colour (noted on living specimens) light brownish grey with broad 

 transverse wavy bands of lighter and darker shades alternating on the back, 

 tail, and limbs. There are about five darker bands on the back : the cross- 

 bands are closer together on the tail. Lower parts white. 



A few specimens of this new gecko were brought to me near the Maki 

 Nai in the lower portion of the Khirthar range, which bounds the province 

 of Sind on the west. The locality whence the types were obtained was in 

 the Mehar division of the Shikarpiir district. 



This is, so far as I am aware, only the second species of the genus as 

 restricted by Fitzinger, Gray, Wagler, and others, and the first which has 

 been found in Asia. The other species, -P. Sasselquisti, which is found 

 in Egypt, is distinguished by having enlarged tubercles on the back, and 

 the nostrils in contact with the first upper labials and rostral. 



5. Gtmnodacttlus, sp. 



A species of which I obtained four specimens in the hilly country 

 south-west of Sehwan and again in the hills west of Larkana appears to 

 differ from G. Kachhensis (Stoliczka, P. A. S. B., 1872, p. 79) in having 

 larger abdominal scales ; there being about 20 instead of about 30 across the 

 abdomen. As I am not sure if this character is constant (for one of my 

 specimens appears to agree with G. Kachhensis), I shall not propose a new 

 name. 



I have compared the species from Baluchistan, which I called G. brevi- 

 pes (A. M. N. H., June, 1874, XIII, p. 453), with the types of G. Kach- 

 hensis. They are quite distinct though allied. The former appears much 

 smaller, darker in colour, and differently marked, and one characteristic dis- 

 tinction is that in G. brevipes the nostril is in contact with both the rostral 

 and first labial, whilst in G. Kachhensis, it meets the rostral only, being 



