112 



Gymnodacttlus scaber, Heyden. 



Peters, Mon. Ac. Berl. 1862, p. 271 ; Gasco, Viaggio in Egitto \ 

 (pt. ii.) 1876, p. 113. 



Egypt : MM. Barnim and Hartmann. Peters. 



Near Cairo : Gasco. 



Egypt: J. Doubleday. Boulenger. 



Agamid^. 



UrOMASTIX ACANTHIJfUETJS, Bell. 



Nubia: Euppell, Mus. Scnck. iii. 1845, p. 303, 

 Egypt : A. Dumeril, Cat. Meth. Eept. 1851, p. 109. 

 Egypt : Boeltger, Kat. Bept. Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 55. 



There is no evidence that this species has ever been found in 

 Egypt. EiippeU only gives Nubia as the locality whence his 

 specimens were obtained. One of them went to Paris, where the 

 locality appears as Egypt ; while, on tlie other hand, the 



^ I bad long been in seareb of tbe late Professor Gasea's work, cited above, as 

 I was aware tbat it contained a list of the Reptiles collecled, on bis journey 

 through Egjpt, in company with the late Prof. P. Panceri. I had, however, 

 applied in vain to the booksellers for a copy ; but on mentioning this to Count 

 Peracca, he very kindly presented me with one, which enables me to mention 

 some reptiles which Prof. Gasco collected in Egypt. I think it is evident, 

 however, that be had no great acquaintance with reptiles, as he refers two 

 snakes obtained by himself, near Alexandria, to the American genus Oxyrojphus, 

 designating them 0. scolopax, Klein. As some of the species of that genus have 

 black heads, I am disposed to think that his two specimens were examples 

 of Macroprotodon cucullatus, Is. Geoffr., which occurs in the district of 

 Alexandria. 



It is also stated by Professor Gasco that two examples of Lacerfa ocellata, 

 Daud. were obtained in the same locality, and he referred them to a variety which 

 he called Icpida. It seems highly improbable, however, that this siDCcies should 

 occur in Egypt, and as Gasco did not distingiiish between Eremias guttidata, 

 Licht., and E. ruhropunctata, Licht., it is just possible tliat he may have 

 mistaken an ofcllated specimen of the former for L. ocellata, Daud. Of course 

 tills is only guess-work, but so unlikely is it tliat the last-mentioned species 

 should be found at Alexandria, that I feel compelled to suggest some expla- 

 nation of how the error may have arisen. 



He also records PsammodroTmis algirits, Linn., and says " this species, which 

 abounds in Algeria and Spain, was collected by us only in the neighbourhood 

 of Alexandria." My impression is tliat in this case also we have an error of 

 identification, and that Gasco had probably before him some species of 

 Acaiithodactylus. 



