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In A. Dumdril's Catalogue of tlie Eeptiles in the Paris Museum 

 (1S51), Agama cynnogaster, Riippell, Eiiprepes scptemfceniatus, 

 licuas, = Arahuin sej)temtamiaia, lieuss, and Gongijlus ocellattcs, 

 Fovskii\, = Chalcidcs (Go}?gglus) oceJlaius, Forskal, are represented 

 by Arabian specimens. 



In the seventh volume of the ' Erpetologio Geueralo ' (1S5-1), 

 rsammopliis piinctulatus, D. & B., is described from Arabia, whence 

 it had been obtained by M. Arnaud, who travelled as a collector 

 for the Paris Museum. 



In 1SG3, Dr. J. E. Gray described Spatalura carteri= Pris- 

 turus carteri, a rock-gecko found by Mr. H. J. Carter on the 

 island of Masira, and mentioned the existence at Makallah of 

 a JJromastix which he was unable to identify. In the following 

 year he described a chameleon from Arabia, O. aiiratus=C. vul- 

 garis, Daud. 



Professor Peters, in the following year, recorded Chalcides 

 (SpJice)ioj)s) srjwides, And., from Tor, Arabia, under the name of 

 Sp/icenops capistratus, AVagler. 



Strauch, in his Monograph of the Viperidse (1869), mentioned 

 that a specimen of Cerastes cornutiis, H. & L., from Arabah, Arabia 

 Petraea, was preserved in the Munich Museum ; and in the same 

 year Westplial-Castlenau gave Arabia as one of the localities in 

 which E. pardalis, D. & 'B., = Eremias guttulata, Licht., was found. 



In 1871, Peters de^^cribed Pristurus Iongipes=Pristurus 

 crucifer,Ydi\.,ivom Aden ; and in that year I characterized a skink, 

 Scincus mitranus, from Arabia, allied to S. officinaJis, Schn. 



In 1874, Mr. Plan ford gave an account of a new gecko from 

 Maskat, 'Pristurus rupestris, and recorded Pristurus flavi- 

 punctatus, Eiippell, from the same locality. 



Captain, afterwards Sir Eichard, Burton presented, in 1878, to 

 the British Museum a small collection of reptiles that he had 

 brought together in Midiau. The species were described and 

 identified by Dr. Giinther, who recognized two as new to science, 

 viz. Zamenis elegantissimus and EcJiis colorafus^; while tbe fol- 

 lowing were new to the Arabian fauna: — Zamenis cIi//'ordi= 

 Z. diadema, Schlegel ; Zamenis venfrimaculatus=Z. rlwdorhachis, 

 Jan ; Ecliis carinatus, Schn. ; Ceraviodactglus dorice, Blanford, 

 = Stenodactglus (0.) dorice,B\an(. ; Uromastix spin/jycs, Merrem,= 

 IT. cegyptius, Hasselquist & Linn. ; Acanthodactylus hoskianus, 

 Daud. ; Acantliodactglus cantoris, Giinther, = ^. losJcianus, Daud. ; 

 aad Bufo pantherinus, Boie,=^. regularis, Eeuss. 

 ' Recorded from the island of Socotra by Dr. Gunther, V. Z. S. 1881, p. 463. 



