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than high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the 

 rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; ten upper and eight lower 

 labials ; mental large, pentagonal, longer than broad ; two pairs of 

 chin-shields, median largest and forming a short suture behind the 

 point of the mental. Body covered above with irregular small flat 

 scales and large trihedral subtriangular tubercles, forming fourteen 

 longitudinal series ; these tubercles are very large, slightly broader 

 than long, the diameter of the largest equalling three fifths the 

 diameter of the eye ; the keel is very sharp, terminating in a small 

 spine on the largest tubercles. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, 

 imbricate, smooth, in twenty-six longitudinal series in the middle of 

 the belly. Male with a long continuous series of about twenty 

 femoral and praeanal pores. TaU rounded, tapering, slightly de- 

 pressed, above with rows of large spinose trihedral tubercles, infe- 

 riorly with a median series of enlarged transverse plates. Sandy- 

 coloured above, with rather indistinct darker transverse bands; 

 lower surfaces white. 



Total length 115 miUim. 



Head 18 „ 



Width of head 12-5 „ 



Body 42 „ 



Fore limb 26 „ 



Hind limb 37 



Tail (injured) 55 „ 



Turkestan; Punjab? 

 a. (J. Krasnowodsk. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 



2. Gymnodactylns scaber. 



Stenodactylus scaber, Ri}pp. Atl. N. Afr., Bept. p. 15, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 Gymnodactylus scaber, part, Bum. <f- Bibr. iii. p. 421. 

 Gonyodactylus (Cyrtopodion) scaber, Fitz. Syst. Mept. p. 93. 

 Gymnodactylus geckoides (non Spix), Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 482. 



scaber, Murray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xiv. 1884, 



pp. 102, 110. 



Head moderate, narrower and smaller than in the preceding; 

 snout slightly longer than the diameter of the orbit, longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; eye large, 

 forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening rather small, elliptical, 

 vertical. Body moderate. Limbs long, the fore limb carried for- 

 wards, reaching as far as the tip of the snout, the hind limb 

 reaching articulation of neck ; digits long and slender, cylindrical 

 at the base, inferiorly with well-developed lamellae. Snout 

 covered with large convex polygonal granules, which are consider- 

 ably smaller than in Q. caspius ; hinder part of head with small 

 granules intermixed with roundish tubercles ; rostral quadrangular, 

 with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, 



