7. STBNODACTTltrs — 8. ALSOPHTIAX. 19 



smootli on the belly. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered witli nniforni 

 keeled scales forming rings. Colour above sandy, with, three series 

 of brown spots on the back ; a brown streak on the side of the 

 head, passing through the eye ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 51 miUim. 



Head 7*5 „ 



Width of head 4-5 „ 



Body 20-5 „ 



Fore limb 10 „ 



Hind limb 14 „ 



Tail (reproduced) 23 „ 



Egypt. 



o. ?? Egypt. 



5. Steuodactylas tripolitanas. 



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

 fig.l. 



This species appears to agree in every point with the preceding, 

 except that all the scales of the body are strongly keeled, and there 

 are only seven upper and six lower labials. The tail is considerably 

 longer than head and body. 



TripoH. 



8. ALSOPHYLAX. 



Alsophylax, Fitzing. Syat. Rept. p. 90. 



Bunopus, Blanf. Ann. ^ Mag. N. S. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 454, and Zool. 

 E. Persia, p. 348. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, not denticulated laterally, inferiorly 

 with a series of lamellse. Body covered above with juxtaposed scales 

 intermixed with enlarged tubercles, inferiorly with imbricate scales. 

 Pupil vertical. Males with prseanal pores. 



Turkestan ; Persia ; Baluchistan. 



1. Alsophylax pipiens. (Plate III. fig. 5.*) 



Lacerta pipiens, Pallas, Zoogr. Poss.-As. iii. p. 27. 



Ascalabotes pipiens, lAchtenst. in Eversm. Seise, p. 145, and Verz. 



Dmbl. Mm. Berl. p. 103. 

 Gymnodactylus pipiens, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 181. 

 Stenodactylus pipiens, Fitzing. N. Classif. Hept. p. 47. 



eversmanni, Fitzing. Syst. Mept, p. 90. 



Eublepharia (Alsophylax) pipiens, Fitzing. I. c. 



Grymnodactylus microtis, Blanf. Journ. As. Sac. Beng. xliv. 1876, 



p. 193, and 2nd York. Miss., Bept. p. 16, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



Head rather small, not much depressed ; snout obtuse, a little 

 longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the 



* Lower surface of fourth toe, X 4. 



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