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Show 630 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON [Dec. 1, thus closely approaching, with respect to these characters, Strauch's G. fedtschenlcoi, which is described as having 30 to 32 rows of ventrals, and 34 to 37 pores. In fact, one of the specimens (no. 16) in the above list has been referred by Boettger to G. fedtschenkoi. As to the other characters taken from the tubercles on the back of the head and body, I find so much variation within certain limits in our specimens, all undoubtedly of one and the same species, that I should have endorsed Boettger's opinion that G. fedtschenkoi may after all not be specifically separable from G. caspius, if it were not for the recent accession of a specimen from Kelif, Bokhara, which I regard as representing the true G. fedtschenkoi. GYMNODACTYLUS FEDTSCHENKOI, Strauch. A single specimen from Kelif, Bokhara. Tubercles smaller than in G. caspius, more as in G. scaber, strongly keeled but not trihedral on the back, where they form 12 series ; round and convex, not keeled, on the occiput and temples. 30 scales across the middle of the belly. Although a female, the specimen shows, as mere impressions, a series of 29 femoro-praeanal pores. EuBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS, Blyth. I have related (Ann. & Mag. N. H. vi. 1890, p. 352) the curious circumstance under which the presence of this Lizard near Ashabad was ascertained by M . Eylandt. EREMIAS GUTTULATA, Licht. I have examined specimens from the Copet Dagh (Nazaroff) and Puli Hatun (Eylandt). As I have not found specimens of Lacerta muralis among the collections made in those localities, it is probable that the Lizards mentioned by Boettger (I. c. p. 907) as having been seen, but not captured, by Walter on the northern slope of the Copet Dagh belonged to Eremias guttulata. EUMECES SCUTATUS, Theobald. This Scink was known from Sind, Cutch, the Punjab, and Cashmere. Its discovery by M . Eylandt so far west as Puli Hatun is therefore of considerable importance. All the 15 specimens examined have 21 scales round the middle of the body and two azygous postmentals; in one specimen the frontoparietals form a very short median suture, in the others the frontal is in contact with the interparietal. Pale brown or olive-grey above, white beneath ; the small specimens have three darker longitudinal bands and are spotted with black, the black spots being crowded and intermixed with white ones on the lateral bands ; upper surfaces and sides of tail with black spots very regularly disposed, a spot occupying every other scale in each longitudinal series. These markings may almost completely disappear in the adult. The largest specimen measures 300 millim., the tail entering for 180. E. scutatus occurs at Puli Hatun in company with E. schneideri, both species being well represented in M . Eylandt's collection. |
