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GECKOTID^, 



of skin extending from the centre of the rostral above the nostrils on 

 each side to the fourth labial and forming a deep groove. Head and 

 back covered with small sub-equal scales above and below ; mental about 

 the size of the rostral and rounded behind ; a distinct fold under the 

 throat. Ear opening a transverse slit. Upper eyelids distinct and well- 

 developed, covered with granular scales. Toes long, clawed, 5-5, fring- 

 ed at the sides and with transverse rows of plates below. No femoral or 

 prge-anal pores. Tail not complete, being reproduced. The scales of the 

 back and sides run so imperceptibly on to the abdomen that it is 

 not possible to count them with accuracy as to their number. I count 

 115. Pupil vertical. Colour pinkish. A dark brown band from behind 

 the eye extending along each side and meeting at the base of the tail, 

 another across the eyes ; a spot in the centre of the head of the same 

 colour ; there is also a narrow band across the back of the neck, a nearly 

 perfect triangular or V mark following, and two oblique bars ; also a 

 narrow line issuing from the last from the middle, on to the base of the 

 tail. Limbs reticulated with greyish brown, forming roundish white 

 spots. 



Locality. — Halla (Sind) found on blown sand, at the roots of Calotro- 

 pis bushes. 



Bunopus, W. Blanford. 



Toes slender, not fringed at the sides, covered below by cross plates 

 which are furnished with projecting tubercles. {Eastern Persia, pi. xxii, 

 fig. 4a.) General form as in Gymrwdactylus. Differs from Stenodac- 

 tylus in the absence of fringes to the toes. 



Bunopus tuberculatus, Blanf. Eastern Persia, p. 348 ; Murray, 

 Hdhlc, ZooL, Sfc, Sind, p. 258. 



General form moderately depressed ; the head higher and broader 

 in proportion to its length in adult specimens than in young ones. 

 Back granular, with numerous enlarged tubercles in about 14 longi- 

 tudinal rows (not very regular) larger, and as a rule trihedral on the 

 centre of the back and base of the tail, where they are often nearly 

 as large as the ear opening, smaller and convex on the back of the 

 neck and on the sides. The larger trihedral tubercles are nearly as 

 broad as long. Pupil vertical. Nostril between the rostral, first labial 

 and three small shields behind, the latter scarcely larger than the 

 granular scales covering the muzzle. Eostral about as broad as high, 

 grooved above. Mental rather broad. Upper labials 10-12; lower 

 labials 8-10. No enlarged chin shields behind the mental ; but a row 

 of scales along the edges of the labials larger than those on the 

 throat. Bar opening small. Chin and throat covered with small 

 granular scales. Abdomen covered with flat, hexagonal sub-imbricate 

 scales in about 25-30 rows across the middle. A row of pree-anal 

 pores between the thighs in a straight line, usually seven in number, 

 sometimes 6 or 8. Tail when perfect longer than head and body, 

 verticillate, each ring being terminated by a row of large closely-set 

 carinate scales, wanting below and in the centre above. No enlarged 



