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dactylus coctcei^ D. & B., = ^. flaviviridis, Riippell ; Agama isolepis^ 

 E]gr.,= ^. jayaJcnri, Anders. ; Varanus ffriseus, Daud. ; Lacerta 

 jayakari, Blgr. ; Lytorhynchus diadema, D. & B. ; Dijjsas oltusa, 

 ^euss, = TarbopJi is yuentheri, Anders. ; and Hiifo aiidersoni, Blgr. 



In the same year, Mr. Boulciigcr, in tlie third volume of his 

 ' Catalogue of Lizards,' mentioned the following species as repre- 

 sented in Arabia: — Acmithodactylusscutellatus, D. & B., Eremias 

 mucronata, Blanf., Eremias ruhropunctata, Licht., Mahuia quin- 

 quetceniata, Licht., and Ghamaleon calcarifer, Peters ; and, in 18S8, 

 he described a new Eryx from Maskat, E. jayalcari. 



Mr. H. C. Hart, in his ' Fauna and Flora of Sinai, Petra, and 

 AVadi Arabah ' (1891), recorded RhynchocaJamusmelanocephalus, 

 Glhv.,= Oliyodon melnnocephalus, Gtlir., from Petra half-way 

 between Akabah and the Dead Sea, and Mana esculenta, Linn., 

 from Ghor, at the southern extremity of the Dead Sea. 



Prof. O. Boettger, in 1892, added Scincus hempj'ichii, Wiegm., 

 to the Arabian fauna. 



In the following year, Mr. P. Matschie described a new species 

 of Lafasfia as Philocliortus neumanni=^L. iieumanni, from Aden, 

 and mentioned the presence in the same locality of Mahuia 

 pulclira, Matschie, = J/«iz«'« brevicollis, Wiegm., Hana ehren- 

 heryi, Peters, = H. cyajiophlyctis, Schn., and Bufo arahicus, 

 ^].Sii?.c\\\c,-=? Bufo pentoni, Anders. 



In 189-1,1 described two new lizards from the district between 

 Makallali and the Hadramut, viz. : — Uromastix {Aporoscelis) 

 benti and JPJirynocephalus arahicus; and, in the following year, 

 added two new lizards from Aden, Hemidactylus yerhurii and 

 Mahuia tcssellafa, and pointed out that the Muscat snake iden- 

 tified by Mr. Boulenger as Dipsas ohtusa, Eeuss, is a distinct 

 species wh.xQh.'LndimeATarhophis gue^iiheri. I also recorded the 

 presence of Acanthodacfylus cantoris, Gtbr., and Bufo pentoni^ 

 Anders., at Aden. 



In the foregoing list of Keptiles and Batrachia, collected on 

 Mr. Bent's Expedition, the following are additions to the fauna 

 of Arabia, viz. : — Stenodactylus (C.) pulcher, n. sp., Bunop)us 

 blanfordii, Strauch, Prist urns coUaris, Steindachn., Agama adra- 

 mitana, n. sp., Eremias hrevirostris, Blanf., Scincus conirostris, 

 Blanf., and the puff-adder, Vipera arietans, Merrem. 



To this list has to be added the new Agama from Maskat, 

 Agama jayakari, the chameleon from Yemen, C. calyptratus, 

 A. Dumeril, and the Glauconia from Aden, G. nursii, Anders. 



