54 eBOKOHIDJB. 



Grey-brown or olive above, clouded -with darker, and frequently 

 witb round lighter spots ; a dark streak passing through the eye ; 

 small bright red dots may be present on the sides of the body ; 

 sometimes a light reddish vertebral band. 



Total length 85 nullim. 



Head 9 „ 



Width of head 5-5 „ 



Body 23 „ 



Pore limb 16 „ 



Hind limb 21 „ 



Tail 53 „ 



Arabia and Soootra to Sind. 



Or-h. $. Muscat, and Island of Karrack, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



near Busheer, Persian Gulf. (Types.) 



c. Several Soootra. Prof I. B. Balfour [C.]. 

 spec, S ? ■ 



3. Pristurus insignis. 



Pristurus insignis, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1881, p. 466, pi. xlii. 

 fig. 1. 



Head short and high, ^raoZis-like ; snout siibacuminate, longer 

 than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and 

 a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead feebly concave ; ear- 

 opening large, oval, vertical, nearly half the diameter of the orbit. 

 Limbs very long, the hind limb when stretched forwards reaching 

 to between the eye and the ear-opening ; digits very long and 

 slender. Snout covered with polygonal convex scales ; the remaining 

 portion of the head, as well as the upper parts of the body, limbs, 

 and tail, covered with minute granules. Rostral subquadrangular, 

 more than twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals ; seven to nine 

 upper and five or six lower labials ; mental extremely large, trun- 

 cate posteriorly, followed by three small chin-shields. Abdominal 

 scales granular, a little larger than the dorsals. Tail much longer 

 than head and body, slender, strongly compressed and keeled above, 

 crestless. Earthy brown above, with rather darker but indistinct 

 cross bands and numerous red spots of irregular shape scattered 

 over the back and sides ; lower parts paler ; chin, throat, and breast 

 mottled with brown. 



Total length 153 millim. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head 9-5 „ 



Body 41 „ 



Fore limb 30-5 „ 



Hind limb 40 „ 



Tail 97 „ 



Socotra. 



«-*■ Ad. Socotra. Prof. I. B. Balfour [0.]. (Types.) 



