320 Un-.iihh, 



Measureiuents ( iu luilliiiietres ) : 



Hahitnt. — youthern Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and neig-h- 

 bouriug parts of liussia,n Turkestan. Also reported from Trans- 

 caucasia. 



27. EKEMIAS VEKMIOULATA. 



Ert'niian venniruhdn, Blanf. Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng. xliv, 1X75, p. 194, 

 and 2nd Yarkaud Miss., Rept. p. 18, pl^i, tiij. 5 (1878); Bouleug. Cat. 

 Liz. iii, p. 106 (1887) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. Res. Przewalski Eeis., Amph. 

 Kept. p. 505 (1912) ; Bouleug. Jouru. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918. p. 7. 



Podarces (Er.\iiias) pylzowi, Straucli, Voy. Przewalski. Kept. p. 28, 

 pi. vi, tig. 1 (187t'.). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed, limbs slender. Head \h 

 to PJ times as long as broad, its length 3| to 4 times iu length to vent, 

 its depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and the 

 tympanum : snout acutely pointed, with feebly swollen nasals, as long 

 as the postocular part of the head ; cauthus rostralis strong, loreal 

 region concave ; a strong concavity on the upper surface of the snout, 

 from the frontonasal to the middle or the posterior extremity of the 



