14 &ECKONIDiB. 



and as many lower labials ; mental rather large, squarish, broader 

 than high ; no chin-shields. Body covered with small flat, slightly 

 keeled, polygonal scales of uniform size. Male with two widely 

 separated praeanal pores. Tail rather slender, cylindrical, gradually 

 tapering to a very fine point, covered with uniform, small, feebly 

 keeled scales. Pale buff above, with brown network enclosing 

 round whitish spots ; tail above annulate brown and white ; lower 

 surfaces white. 



Total length Ill miUim. 



Head 17 „ 



Width of head 13 „ 



Body 49 „ 



Fore limb 26 „ 



Hind limb 34 „ 



Tail 45 „ 



a. 



Persia; Arabia. 



(5'. Arabia. Capt. Burton [P. 



%, 



b. 5 , Sinaitic Peninsula. H. 0. Hart, Esq. [0.] 



2. Ceramodactylus affinis. 



Ceramodactylus affinis, Murray, Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (5) xiv. 1884, 

 p. 103. 



Distinguished from the preceding by a stouter habit. The head 

 is more convex, and the limbs and digits shorter ; if stretched for- 

 wards the fore limb does not extend beyond the tip of the snout, 

 the bind limb does not reach the axil. The tail is shorter and ends 

 more abruptly. Ten or eleven upper and as many lower labials ; 

 mental as long as broad, its posterior edge curved. Sandy grey 

 above, with darker specks, and four dark cross bands, the anterior 

 on the occiput, the posterior on the loins ; these bands curved, with 

 the concavity in front ; lips with dark vertical bars ; lower surfaces 

 whitish. 



Total length 85 millim. 



Head 16 „ 



Width of head 12 „ 



Body 37 „ 



Fore limb 21 „ 



Hind limb 28 „ 



Tail 32 „ 



Persia, 



a.?. Tanjiatan. J. A. Murray, Esq. [P.]. (One of 



the types.) 



