Yar. saturata. 

 (J Kuenluen Valleys, S. of Yai-kand 



(type) 



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„ Kntehar Oasis, P.M. . . . 67 55 16 34 11 23 12-11 21 7-6 

 „ . . . 67 62 16 31 12 26 13-12 24 7 



Habitat. ^-The type is from between Suraeaud the Tola River, Gobi 

 Desert of Mongolia, and the species has since been rediscovered in 

 other parts of Mongolia, as far south as the Alashan Desert, and 

 appears to be extensively distributed in Chinese Turkestan (Tian Shan, 

 Kashgar, Yarkand, Sarikol, etc.). It is also recorded from Eepetek in 

 Transcaspia by Elpatjewsky and Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxiv, 

 1900, p. 252. 



I am i-ather embarrassed how to deal with Ere))iias hiiecluieri, Bedr. 

 A specimen from the Alashan Desert, received under that name from 

 the Petrograd Museum in 1899,* although agreeing fairly well in form 

 and markings with Bedriaga's figure, has the rostral as broad as deep 

 and the nasals scarcely swollen, and cannot be separated from E. 

 multiocellata, var. yarkanden^is. Not having had access to Bedriaga's 

 material, I cannot do better than give a translation of his diagnosis, 

 and leave to the future to decide whether I am justified in placing 

 E. buechneri in the synonymy of E. multiocellata. It is, however, 

 possible that the specimens with strongly swollen nasals belong to a 

 distinct species. 



Eremias buechneri. Total length 163 millim. Habit slender and 

 elongate ( 9 ) or more sturdy (J*). Head pyramidal or platycephal ; 

 snout long, pointed, rounded at the end ; limbs short and robust ; tail 

 thick, less than -j of the total lengtli. No occipital; parietals longer 

 than broad; frontoparietals longer than broad ; no scales between the 

 second and third supraoculars ; frontal shorter or longer than, or as 

 long as the ti-ansverse axis of the frontoparietals ; no scales between 



* The Alashan specimens appear to have been i-ef erred since to E. muUi- 

 ocellata,. 



