Habitat. — The type specimens of this species are from Kalabagh in 

 the Punjab and Tumb Island in the Persian Gridf. The lizard has 

 since been found in Persia near Bushire, in Mesopotamia, and in Sjria 

 (Coslesyria Valley, Palmyra, Jerud), and I refer to the same species 

 one of Blanford's Mesalina 2wrdalis from Dasht, Baluchistan. The 

 area of distribution, though a broken one in the present state of our 

 knowledge, thus extends from Syria to the Punjab. 



14. EREMIAS EUBROPLTNCTATA. 



Lacerta rnhrnpuncfata , Lichtenst. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 100 

 (1823). 



Scapteira nebulosa, Gray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 281. 



Mesalina licMensteinii, Gray, t.c. p. 282. 



Eremias ruhroimndata, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 297 (1839) 

 A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Kept. pi. xlviii, fig. 9 (1845) ; Bouleng 

 Cat. Liz. iii, p. 89 (1887) ; Koenig, Reis. Alg. pp. 93, 412 (1896) 

 Anders. Zool. Egypt, Kept. p. 182, pi. xxiii, figs. 6, 6 (1898) ; Steiud 

 Denkschr. Ak. Wieu, Ixix, 1900, p. 330 ; Werner, Zool. Jahrli., Syst 

 xxvii, 1909, p. 608 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. xx, 1913, p. 81 ; Bouleng 

 Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 5. 



Mesalina mhropunciata, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 43 (184-5). 



