4. lERAIOSCINCtrS. 5. CERAMODACXrWIS. 13 



diameter of the eye. Body depressed. Limbs moderate ; toes 

 rather long. Head covered with small granules, largest on the 

 snout ; rostral quadrangular, broader than high, -with median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals ; nine 

 or ten upper and as many lower labials ; mental quadrangular, 

 a little longer than the adjacent labials ; no regular chin-shields. 

 Scales of body large, cycloid, smooth, imbricate, largest on the 

 abdomen, of limbs smaller. Tail round at the base, compressed in 

 its posterior half, covered inferiorly and laterally with scales similar 

 to those of the body, above with a series of large, transverse, nail- 

 like plates. Cream-coloured above, with traces of the brown 

 transverse bands which are distinct in the young ; lower surfaces 

 white. 



Total length 126 millim. 



Head 22 



Width of head 19 



Body 67 



Fore limb 30 



Hind limb 42 



Tail 47 



Persia ; Turkestan. 

 a. 5 . Eastern Turkestan. Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



5. CERAMODACTYLUS. 



Ceramodaotylus, Blanford, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 464. 



Digits not dilated, furnished with a long claw, depressed, with a 

 lateral fringe of long pointed scales, covered inferiorly with small 

 imbricate pointed scales. Body covered with small flat scales. 

 Pupil vertical. Males with prseanal pores. 



Persia ; Arabia. 



1. Ceramodactylus dorisB. (Plate II. flg. 4*.) 



Ceramodaotylus dorise, Blanf. I. c, and Zool. E. Persia, p. 353, 

 pi. xxiii. tig. 2. 



Head large, oviform ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as the 

 diameter of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening ; eye large ; ear-opening small, elliptic, vertical. Body 

 little depressed. Limbs long, slender; if stretched forward the 

 fore limb reaches beyond the tip of the snout, the hind limb a little 

 beyond the axil ; toes rather long. Head covered with granular 

 scales, which are slightly keeled on the snout ; rostral pentagonal, 

 broader than high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced in 

 the centre of a slight swelling followed by a concavity, between the 

 rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; fourteen or fifteen upper 



* Lower surface of fourth toe, X 5. 



