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Oymnodadylus scaler, Heyden ; IIeiindactj/lus[/ra720SHS,Il6jden, 

 = HemiJactijlus turcicus, Linn. ; Bufo aralicus, lley den, = JBufo 

 viridis, Laur. 



Dr. A. Eeuss, in 1834, characterized a number of reptiles from 

 Arabia collected by Eiippell, principally on his second expedition. 

 One, however, was obtained on bis first journey, and is stated to 

 have been found at Tor, Arabia Petrsea, a locality I have not 

 been able to identify, unless it be Tor, on the sea-coast of the 

 Sinaitic Peninsula. This species, viz. Lacerta Iongicaudata^= 

 Latastia longicaudata \ was afterwards found by Eiippell in 

 Abyssinia, where it appears to be common, as it is likewise at 

 Suakiu, in the neighbourhood of which I obtained many speci- 

 mens. Eeuss also enumerates the following species as Arabian : — 

 Agama Ioricata'=A. pallida, Eeuss"; Coluber Iacri/mans = 

 Psammophls sclioJcari, Porskal ; and Coluber ■moilensis=^ Coslopellis 

 moiJensis, Eeuss. 



Eiippell himself, in 1835, described Trapelus Jlavimaculatus= 

 Agama jiavimaculata, from Jiddah, to which locality Dumeril 

 and Bibron erroneously ascribed Ac/ama cganogaster, Eiippell, 

 which was first discovered at Massowah. 



In the fourth volume (1837) of Dumeril and Bibron's work, 

 Agama Jiavimaculata, EiippelP, is wrongly regarded as a 

 synonym of A. agilis, Olivier *^, and consequently Jiddah is given 

 as a locality for the latter species. 



In 1837, Wiegmann described Scincus meccensis from Mecca ; 

 and, iu 1839, Dr. J. E. Gray referred a lizard collected by 

 Eiippell in Arabia Petraea to the genus Riopa, but now generally 

 recognized to be Ablepharics pannoniciis, Pitz. 



In Eiippell's Catalogue of the Eeptiles in the Frankfort 

 Museum, a specimen ol Stenodactylus guttatus, Cuv., =/S'. elegants, 

 Pitz., is mentioned from Arabia. 



Dumeril and Bibron, iu their sixth volume (1844), record 

 TgpMops vermicularis, Merr., from the foot of Sinai, on the 

 strength of specimens from that locality in the Ley den IMuseum, 

 and also note the presence of Eryx jaculus, Hasselq. & Linn., 

 iu Arabia, but do not state the source of their information 

 regarding the latter. 



> Prof. O. Boettger (Kat. Kept. Frankfurt Mas. 1893, p. 89) records this 

 species only from Arabia, but besides the type from Tor there are RuppeU'b 

 three Abyssinian specimens. 



^ Type iu the Fraukfort Museum examiued. 



^ Type examiued. ' Types examined. 



