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4. Gynmodactylus kotschyi. 



Gymnodactylus geckoides {non Spix), Gray, Cat. -p. 175. 



Stenodactylus guttatua (non Cuv.), Bibr. in Bory, Exp6d. So. Mor. 

 iii. p. 69, pi. xi. fig. 3. 



Gymnodactylus scaber, part., Bum. 8^ £ibr. iii. p. 421. 



kotschyi, Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixii. i. 1870, p. 829, pi. i. 



fig. 1 ; Sohrdb. Herp. Eur. p. 481 ; Be Betta, Atti 1st. Venet. (5) 

 V. 1879, p. 382 ; Boettgm-, Ber. Smch. Ges. 1878-79, p. 75 ; Bedriaoa, 

 Bull. Mosc. Ivi. 1882, p. 64 ; Peracca, Zool Am. 1884, p. 672. 



Distinguished from G. sealer in tte following characters : — 

 Body and limbs stouter, less elongate, the fore limb reaching hardly 

 the tip of the snout, and the hind limb the axilla or the shoulder. 

 Ear-opening larger, suboval or roundish. Dorsal tubercles much 

 smaller, not larger than the ear-opening, the largest much longer 

 than broad ; they form ten or twelve longitudinal series. Abdo- 

 minal scales smaller, in about thirty longitudinal series in the 

 middle of the beUy. Pour praeanal pores. Nine upper and seven 

 lower labials. Grey above, with angular transverse bands ; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



Total length 94 miUim. 



Head 13 „ 



Width of head 9 „ 



Body 29 „ 



Fore limb 17 „ 



Hind limb 22-5 „ 



Tail 52 „ 



South Italy, Greece, Turkey (?), Cyprus, Syria, Persia, Egypt, 

 island of Goree. 



a-b. $ . S. Europe; 



c. c5'. Milo Island, Cyclades. G. A. Boulenger, Esq. [PJ. 



d. S . Mount Garmel. Rev. H. B. Tristram [O.J. 



e. Yg. Lake of Galilee. Rev. H. B. Tristram [C.]. 



5. Gymnodactylus kacthensis. 



Gymnodactylus kachhensis, StoKczka, Proe. As. iSoo. Beng. 1872, 



p. 79 ; Blanford, Jmirn. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 1876, p. 20. 

 petrensis, Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 362, pi. — . fig. 1. 



Allied to the preceding species. Body rather short, as in G. 

 Jcotschyi; fore limb reaching as far as the tip of the snout or a 

 little beyond, hind limb to constriction of neck. Dorsal tubercles 

 in twelve or fourteen longitudinal series, intermediate in size 

 between those of G. scaber and G. Jcotschyi,^in shape similar to 

 the former. Abdominal scales in about thirty longitudinal rows, 

 as in G. Jcotschyi. No regular series of infracaudal plates. Prse- 

 anal pores four to sis. Ten or eleven upper and eight to ten lower 



