NOARE ON TEE OCCURRENCE Of LHe 
TCH LM NA gens NAOT AEC AT Ni, 
SEISTAN AND Pen G oy AN 
BALUCH DESERT. 
By N. ANNANDALE, D.Sc., F.A.S.B., Directoy, and AMIN-UD-DIN, 
M.Sc., Research Assistant, Z oological Survey of India. 
Makki in Western Baluchistan, close to the Afghan border. When 
asked why he did this, the man said that he was afraid of leeches. 
No leech was seen in this spring, but many were observed at Robat 
close to the point at which the Afghan, Baluch and Persian frontiers 
meet, and also at Hurmuk across the last. Specimens were not 
captured at N awarchah, a place some distance north of Hurmuk 
and well within the district of Seistan, on the tongue of a horse. 
The specimen js small, being only 2°5 cm. long and ‘5 em. 
broad as preserved in 90% alcohol, but it agrees in all essentials 
with small specimens of L. nilotica (Savigny) from Palestine. It 
belongs to the colour-form in which the dark markings are obscure 
or obsolete. The posterior sucker is of a characteristic size, the 
1 Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino IX, No. 189, p. 43 (1894). 
* Parasitology I, Pp. 282 (1908). 
° Fudges VIT, 6, Frazer in his Folk-lore in the Old Testament adopts a 
ritualistic explanation. 
