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Show 676 MR. W. T. BLANFORD ON PERSIAN REPTILES. [June 7, darker cross bands on the trunk and limbs, often interrupted on the former. Tail with numerous imperfect dark rings. In some specimens the enlarged scales of the back and sides are whitish, producing a speckled appearance. The chin and throat in males and the gular sac speckled with dusky or blue, or altogether dark indigo ; rest of lower parts white. Length of an adult male 8 inches, of which the tail is 5 ; of a female 7*8, of which the tail is 4*4. This species is intermediate between typical Agama and the Asiatic forms of Trapelus: it has the general form of the first-named, and the irregularity in the dorsal scales characteristic of the latter. It is easily distinguished from Agama agilis and A. sinaita by the inequality of the dorsal scales, and from Trapelus ruderatus, T. megalonyx \ and T. rubrigularis2 by its less depressed form, longer limbs, higher head, and more prominent canthus rostralis, by the strong and persistent keelson the dorsal scales, and by the much smaller difference between the enlarged scales of the back and the ordinary dorsal scales. The nearest ally I have seen is a species represented by two specimens in the British Museum. These specimens are said to be from Egypt, and to have been presented by Mr. Burton. They were the two examples referred by Dr. Gray in his ' Catalogue of Lizards,' p. 258, to Trapelus savignii. As, however, T. savignii is said, in Dr. Gray's own description of the species, to have "nape and back with a crest, scales of the back rather large, equal," and was originally described by Dumeril and Bibron3 (from a figure apparently) as having a crest extending from the occiput to the tail, and the scales of the upper part of the body equal to each other, it is difficult to understand how these specimens, which are crestless and have unequal dorsal scales, can be referred to the species. The Lizard in question is only distinguished from A.persica by the dorsal scales being more irregular and less strongly keeled, the head less raised, the canthus less prominent, and by the scales above the supraorbital tracts being convex but not keeled. Agama persica is represented in the collection by five specimens, four of which are from Dehbid. STELLIO NTJPTUS. Kazrun and Shiraz. The two specimens from Shiraz, both males, are black almost throughout. They were taken on the 2oth April. I suspect that the black colour is seasonal. These specimens agree with the variety I called fuscus ('Eastern Persia,' ii. p. 319) in colour and in the obliteration of the nuchal fold. A female from Kazrun, captured April 16th, contains large eggs 1 Gunther, Eept, Brit. Ind. p. 159, pi. xiv fie C : W- T Blanford, J. A. S. B. 1876,P Xlv. p. 23, pi. i. fig. 1. 3 Err>. ficn iv r> ROS x 6 3 Erp. Gen. iv. p. 508. |