23. HEMIDAOTTLTrS. 127 



Hemidactylus triedrus, Bonap. Faun. ltd. 



verruculatus, Bibr. in Bory, ExpM. Se. MorSe, Rapt. p. 68, 



pi. XI. flg. 2 ; Bum. Sf Bibi: iii. p. 359 ; Bonap. Amph. Eur. p. 29 : 

 Be Betta, Faun. Ital, Rett. Anf. p. 20: Schreib. Herp. Ear. 

 p. 487 ; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Oes. 1879-80, p. 192. 



cyanodactylus, Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 23. 



turcicus, Boettger, Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1876, p. 57. 



karachiensis, Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 361, pi.—. %. 2. 



Snout rounded, about as long as the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, once and one fourth to once and one third the 

 diameter of the orbit ; forehead slightly concaye ; ear-opening oval, 

 oblique, not quite half the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs 

 moderate. Digits rather variable in the length, the inner always 

 well developed ; six to eight lamellae under the inner digits, eight to 

 ten under the fourth finger, and niue to eleven under the fourth toe. 

 Head anteriorly with large granules, posteriorly with minute granules 

 intermixed with round tubercles. Eostral four-sided, not twice as 

 broad as high, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; seven to ten upper 

 and six to eight lower labials ; mental large, triangular, at least 

 twice as long as the adjacent labials, its point between two large 

 chin-shields, which may be in contact behind it ; a smaller chin- 

 shield on each side of the larger pair. Upper surface of body covered 

 with minute granules intermixed with large tubercles ; these are 

 generally larger than the interspaces between them, suboval, tri- 

 hedral, and arranged in fourteen or sixteen pretty regular longitu- 

 dinal series. Abdominal scales smaU, smooth, roundish-hexagonal, 

 imbricate. Males with a short angular series of four to ten (ex- 

 ceptionally two) preeanal pores. Tail cylindrical, slightly depressed, 

 tapering, covered above with minute scales and transverse series of 

 large keeled tubercles, inferiorly with a series of large transversely 

 dilated plates. Light brown or greyish above, spotted with darker ; 

 many of the tubercles white ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 90 millim. 



Head 14 



Width of head 10-5 



Body 39 



Fore limb 17 



Hind limb 23 



Tail (reproduced) 37 



Borders of the Mediterranean and of the Eed Sea ; Sind. 



a-b. 2 Mediterranean. R. Hannah, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d-g. 2 & yg. S. Europe. P. Webb, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Yg. Spain. Lord Lilford [P.], 



i. Yg. , Mt. Santa Oruz, Algeria. M. F. Lataste [P.]. 



k. $. Algeria. M. F. Lataste [P. 1 



I. ,3 . Marsala, Sicily. Dr. 0. Boettger [P.]. 



m-o. (3 & yg. Sicily. T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 



