] 6 GECKONIB^. 



7. STENODACTYLUS. 



Stenodactylus, Fitzing. N. Classif. Bept. p. 13, and Syst. Rept. 



p. 89; Cuv. mgne Anim. 2nd ed. ii. p. 68; Dum. Sf Bihr.\\\. 



p. 433 ; Gray, Cat. p. 177. 

 Asoalabotes, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 143. 

 Gymnodactylus, part., Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 19. 

 Tolarenta, Ch-ay, Zool. Misc. p. 58. 

 Tropiocolotes, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1880, p. 306. 



Digits not dilated, furnished with a long claw, and a lateral 

 fringe or denticulation of pointed scales ; inferiorly with a series of 

 keeled scales. Body covered with juxtaposed or imhricated scales. 

 Pupil vertical. No prceanal nor femoral pores. 



North Africa ; South-western Asia ; Sind. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. No chin-shields ; dorsal scales small. 



Dorsal lepidosis formed of granules inter- 

 mixed with scattered tuhercles ; digits 

 strongly fringed 1. orientalis, p. 16. 



Dorsal scales uniform, juxtaposed ; rostral 



entering the nostril 2. guttatus, p. 17. 



Dorsal scales uniform, suhimhrioate ; rostral 



not entering the nostril 3. wilkinsonii, p. 18. 



II. Two pairs of chin-shields ; dorsal scales large, imbricate. 

 Dorsal scales feehly keeled, ahdominal scales 



smooth 4. petersii, p. 18. 



Dorsal and ventral scales strongly keeled. . 5. tripolitanus, p. 19. 



1. Stenodactylus orientalis. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



Stenodactylus orientalis, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 1876, 



p. 21. 

 dunstervillei, Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 363, §■ erratum. 



Head rather depressed, regularly oviform ; snout slightly longer 

 than the diameter of the orbit, as long as the distance between the 

 latter and the ear-opening; forehead very slightly concave; ear- 

 opening an oblique slit measuring two thirds the diameter of the eye. 

 Body moderate, depressed. Limbs moderate ; digits elongate, de- 

 pressed, with well-developed lateral fringe ; the transverse inferior 

 lamellae quinquecarinate. Head covered with small granules, which 

 are feebly keeled on the snout and between the eyes ; rostral quad- 

 rangular, broader than high, with median cleft above ; nostril 

 pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; twelve 

 upper and thirteen lower labials ; mental broader than high, sub- 

 pentagonal, the lower angle rounded ; no chin-shields. Body 

 covered with small granules, keeled on the ventral region, inter- 



