336 Lacertidx. 



Particulars of S2:)ecimens Examined. 



,, Feizabad-Mondeclii, E. Persia 



(type of E. nigrocellata) . . 66 61 IS 32 10 29 13 21 7 



Habitat. — The type's are from the Aralo-Caspian Desert, but this 

 species is also known to occur in Transcaspia, Turkestan (near 

 L. Balkash), and Northern and Eastern Persia (Astrabad, Seistan, 

 Feizabad-Mondechi). 



E. intermedia connects E. multiocellata with E. anjida. 



33. EREMIAS ARGUS. 



Eremias arrjus, Peters, Mon. Berk Ac. 1869, p. 61, pi. — , fig. 3; 

 Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixii, i, 1870, p. 336, pk ii, figs. 1, 2; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 102 (1887) ; Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 

 1888, p. m; Werner, Abh. Bayer. Ak. xxii, 1904, p. 354; Nikolsky, 

 Herp. Ross. p. 167 (1905) ; Elpatjewsky & Sabanejev, Zook Jalirb., 

 Syst. xxiv, 1906, p. 253; Stejneg. Herp. Japan, p. 248, figs. (1907); 

 Bedriaga, Wiss. Res. Przewalski Reis., Aniph. Rept. p. 636 (1912) ; 

 Bouleug. Journ. Zook Res. iii, 1918, p. 8. 



Eremias brenchleyi, Giiuth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) ix, 1872, p. 419, 

 and in Brenchley, " Curacoa," p. 306, pk xxii, fig. a (1873) ; J. G. 

 Fischer, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Aust, v, 1888, p. 46, pk iv, fig. 9; 

 Mchely, in Zichy, Zook Ergebn. 3. Asiat. Forschungsr. ii, p. 56 

 (1901) ; Elpatjewsky & Sabanejev, t.c. p. 252 ; Bedriaga, op. cit. 

 p. 648. 



Podarces (Eremias) arcjus, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Rept. p. 32 

 (1876). 



Podarces (Eremias) brenchleyi, Strauch, op. cit. p. 30. 



Eremias argus, var. brenchleyi, Boettg. I.e. ; Bouleng. Journ. Zook 

 Res. iii, 1918, p. 10. 



Body feebly depressed. Head convex, not much broader than 

 deep, 1^- to 1{7 times as long as broad, its length 3| to 4J times 



