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Show 1881.] MR. W. T. BLANFORD ON PERSIAN REPTILES. 677 CENTROTRACHELTJS LORICATUS. Ghorak. (I think this must be the same as a place marked Gurek on St. John's map, 15 miles east of Bushire.) Both the two specimens collected are small, the largest barely 12 inches long, and the smaller only 6. Though rather darker than the type of C. loricatus, they have none of the olive coloration of C. asmussi. They agree with the former in the more distant rows of tubercles on the back, and in having the keels of the scales beneath the hind feet arranged in transverse, and not in oblique rows. More specimens, however, and especially adults, are requisite in order to show whether these two forms are really separable. PSAMMOSATJRUS SCINCTJS. Konar Takhti (20 miles south-west of Kazrun) and Ghainak (I do not know the latter locality). The specimens (three in number) are quite undistinguishable from Egyptian examples in the British Museum. I see no probability of P. caspius being really distinct. *SCINCUS CONIROSTRTS, Sp. nOV. S. afiinis S. officinali, sed capite breviore, magis conico, scutis supranasalibus contingentibus atque prafrontale a rostrali secernentibus, distinguendus. Tangyak, 7 miles south of Bushire. Nearly allied to S. ofiicinalis, so nearly as to be merely a local race ; but the head is differently shaped, being shorter and more Fig. 1. Head of Scincus conirostris. conical, the length of the head from the occiput to the end of the nose being nearly equal to the width of the body between the axils of the fore limbs or very little greater. Another distinction, which is constant so far as I can judge from the series of S. ofiicinalis in the Museum, is that in the latter the prsefrontal shield is always in contact with the rostral, whereas in the Persian form the two are separated from each other by the supranasals. The vertical shield is proportionally shorter in S. conirostris. In all other respects the two forms appear to be similar; and the coloration is identical. So far as I am aware there are, besides S. ofiicinalis, three de- |