. Zoology of Egypt. rged tubercles at its base are always present, and are especiallywell developed in the latter form of tail, and most so in the males, so that it isalmost possible to determine the sexes by the degree of its development. A small gecko, with straight, non-dilated digits, covered below by more or lessslightly imbricate, carinated, transverse lamellae, the sides of the digits finely dentate,and the body clad with small, nearly polygonal, juxtaposed scales, is found throughoutEgypt. It was first described by Lichtenstein in 1823, under the term Ascalabotessthenodach/lus 1, and i
. Zoology of Egypt. rged tubercles at its base are always present, and are especiallywell developed in the latter form of tail, and most so in the males, so that it isalmost possible to determine the sexes by the degree of its development. A small gecko, with straight, non-dilated digits, covered below by more or lessslightly imbricate, carinated, transverse lamellae, the sides of the digits finely dentate,and the body clad with small, nearly polygonal, juxtaposed scales, is found throughoutEgypt. It was first described by Lichtenstein in 1823, under the term Ascalabotessthenodach/lus 1, and in these words: Asc. supra alio- et brunneo-oeellatus. 5. Nubia. Fitzinger2, in 182G, selected it as the type of a new genus, which he 1 Doubl. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1823, p. 102. 2 N. Class. Eept. 1826, p. 47. STENODACTYLUS. 37 named Stenodactylus, using the specific name for the generic term, and designating thespecies S. elegans. The following x is a figure of one of the types from the BerlinMuseum. Fig. i Stenodactylus elegans, Fitzinger. $ .One of the types of Ascalabotes sthenodactylus, Licht., from Berlin Museum. Baron Cuvier, in the new edition of the Regne Animal, published in 1829, adoptedthe genus Stenodactylus and named the species S. guttatus, basing it on certain figuresin the Description de lEgypte. One of these figures (plate v. fig. 2) is in everyway so crude that it is impossible to gain from it any idea of what may have been thecharacters of the lizard which it was intended to represent. A second figure, however(Suppl. plate i. fig. 3) (not Suppl. plate i. fig. 2, as stated by Cuvier, which isPti/odactylus lobatus = P. hasselquistii, Donndorff), he held represented the samespecies. This figure, taken as a whole, is a good likeness of S. elegans, Fitzinger, theAsc. sthenodactylus, Licht. The other figure on Suppl. plate i., viz. fig. 4, Cuvierregarded as a species distinct from S. guttatus, but allied to it. The figure on which Cuvier based his S. gu
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