Habitat. — The type specimens of this species are from Kalabngli in 

 the Punjab and Turab Island in the Persian Gulf. Tlie lizard has 

 since been found in Persia near Bushire, in Mesopotamia, and in Syria 

 (Coslesyria Valley, Palmyra, Jerud), and I refer to the same species 

 one of Blanford's Mesalina pardalis from Dasht, Baluchistan. The 

 area of distribution, thougli a broken one in the present state of our 

 knowledge, thus extends from Syria to the Punjab. 



14. EEEMIAS RUBEOPimCTATA. 



Lacerta rnhroj)unctata, Lichtenst. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 100 

 (1823). 



Scapteira nebulosa, G-ray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 281. 



Mesalina lichtensteinii, Gray, t.c. p. 282. 



Eremias mbropunctata, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 297 (1839) ; 

 A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Kept. pi. xlviii, fig. 9 (1845); Bouleng. 

 Cat. Liz. iii, p. 89 (1887) ; Koeuig, Eeis. Alg. pp. 93, 412 (1896) ; 

 Anders. Zool. Egypt, Kept. p. 182, pi. xxiii, figs. 5, 6 (1898) ; Steind. 

 Deukschr. Ak. Wien, Ixix, 1900, p. 330 ; Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 

 xxvii, 1909, p. 608 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. xx, 1913, p. 81 ; Bouleng. 

 Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 5. 



Mesalina rubro punctata, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 43 (1845). 



