320 Laceiihhv 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



Fn>m eml of snout to vent 



,, .. .. fore linil) . 



Tjenii'th of head .... 

 Width of head . . 



Depth of head 

 Fore limb .... 

 Hind limb . ... 



Fo<..t . .... 



Tail 



1. r?, Saidaliad. tvpe. 2. $ , Haidahad, type. 3. cJ , Sir-I-Tam, type. 

 4. 2 , Helniand. 



Petri! cuJars of Sj 

 1 

 (? Sir-I-'ram,S.W...f Kannan (type) 5.S 49 

 ? ., ... 



(J Saiilabad, 

 ? „ ... 



„ Khevan ... 



(J Koliak, Perso-Balucli frontier 

 $ Helniand .... 



Habitat. — Southern Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and neigh- 

 bouring parts of Russian Turkestan. Also reported from Trans- 

 caucasia. 



27. EREMIAS VERMICULATA. 



Eremias vermiculata, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliv, 1875, p. 194, 

 and 2ud Yarkaud Miss., Rept. p. 18, pi. ii, fig. 5 (1878) ; Bouleng. Cat. 

 Liz. iii, p. 106 (1887) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. Res. Przewalski Reis.. Amph. 

 Rept. p. 505 (1912) ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 7. 



Podarces (Er.::iiias) pijlzowi, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Rept. p. 28, 

 pi. vi, fig. 1 (1876). 



Head aud body rather strongly depressed, limbs slender. Head H 

 to 1| times as long as broad, its length 3t to 4 times in length to vent, 

 its depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and the 

 tympanum ; snout acutely pointed, with feebly swollen nasals, as long 

 as the postocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis strong, loreal 

 region concave ; a strong concavity on the upper surface of the snout, 

 from the frontonasal to the middle ov the posterior extremity of the 



