Dec. 2 



IQl^"] BARBOUR — REPTILES FROM SINAI AND SYRIA 85 



[Acanthodactylus boscianus (Daudin). 



The following specimens were preserved: twenty from Feiran, 

 two from Wady Gharandel, six from the Monastery of St. 

 Catherine, and one from Fuweila, in Sinai; sixteen from Petra 

 and five from Akaba, in Arabia; and two from Wady Kerak, near 

 the Dead Sea. Other species of this genus, which might be expected 

 to occur in the region traversed, were not found. 



Ophiops elegans Menetrier. 



This species is known from a multitude of localities in Syi'ia and 

 Palestine. So far as I know, until the present time it has never 

 been taken in Sinai, although it extends eastward to the Punjaub. 

 Dr. Phillips took two specimens at Fuweila, near Mount Sinai. 

 His collection contains, besides these, three from Jericho, about 

 fifty from Tafileh, Palestine, and about seventy-five from el 

 Kerak, east of the Dead Sea. Besides this, Mann secured it at 

 Rasheya, near Mount Hermon, and there are other specimens in 

 the Museum from Jerusalem and Adana in Asia Minor. 



Eremias guttulata (Lichtenstein). 



Specimens were preserved from Wady Gharbeh, Sinai, and 

 Petra, Arabia. These do not seem to differ from other specimens 

 in the Museum from Baluchistan, on the east, and from various 

 localities in Algeria, far to the westward. 



Eremias rubropunctatus (Lichtenstein). 



Six specimens from Wady Gharandel, Sinai, the only station 

 where this species was found. It is confined to lower Egypt and to 

 the peninsula of Sinai. 



