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Wiegm., Mahuia septemtceniata, Keusa, and Scincus hempricJiii, 

 Wiegm. ; and all of them are found on the eastern side of the 

 Straits of Bab el Mandeb. Agama cyanogaster, Elippell, is also 

 an Abyssinian and Somaliland lizard that occurs on the Arabian 

 coast, at Jiddah ; and to it have to be added two other Abyssinian 

 and Eastern Sudan species, viz., Latastia longicaudata, Eeuss, 

 and Eremias mucronata, Blanf., wbich, strange to say, have not 

 hitherto been found in South Arabia, but only in the Sinaitic 

 Peninsula. Psammophis punctulatus, D. & B., another species 

 inhabiting Abyssinia, baa also been recorded from Arabia, but 

 from what part has not been stated. Vipera arietans, Merr., 

 has recently been received from Somaliland, and it is now for 

 the first time recorded from Asia. If to the foregoing 42 species, 

 Eemidact ylusflaviviridis, Eiippell, Zamenis diadema, Schlegel, and 

 EcJiis carinatus, Schn., be added, the list of 45 species occurring 

 on both sides of the EedSea and of the Suez Canal is completed. 

 Ablepharus pannonicus, Pitz., Typlilops vermicularis, Merr., and 

 Agama ruderata, Olivier, found in the north-western extremity 

 of Arabia, do not enter Africa ; wliilst Echis coloratus, Grthr., is 

 found in Socotra and Palestine. Two species — Stei2odachjlus (C.) 

 doriai, Blanf., and Scincus conirostris, Blanf., — found in South 

 Persia, and not to the west of the Persian Grulf, occur also in 

 Eastern Arabia, along with Zamenis Jcarelinii, Brandt, which 

 ranges southwards to Persia from Turkestan. In the same part 

 of Arabia Tesludo elegans, Suhoepff, and Uromastix hardwickii, 

 Grav, both of which are essentially Indian forms, are likewise 

 present ; and associated with them are other four species, viz. : — 

 Bunopus tuberculatus, Blanf., Pristurus t'upestris, li[auf.,AcaniJio- 

 dactylus cantoris, Gthr., and Eremias hrevirostris, Blanf., all 

 present in the north-western portion of India. 



Two frogs and four toads have been observed in Arabia. Two 

 are European species, viz., Eana esculenia, Linn., and Bufo 

 viridis, Laur. ; the former extends into North-Western, and the 

 latter into North Africa generally. Two of the toads, viz., Bn/o 

 i-egularis, Eeuss, and Bufo pentoni, Anders., are closely allied, and 

 are confined to Africa and Arabia, the former being only found 

 in North-Western and the latter in Southern Arabia. The two 

 remaining species, Bana cganopJilgctis, Schn., and Bufo andersoni, 

 Bh^r., are confined to Asia, the former having a very wide rauge 

 from Malaya to S.E. Arabia, while the latter is a North- AVest 

 Indian species extending into S.E. Arabia. 



