18. EKTX. 127 



q. Hgr. (V. 187 ; C. 34). Between Shiraz and W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Karman, Persia. [E-]- 



r. $ (V. 1G5; C. 27). Ai Dara, W. slope of M. C. Eylandt [C.]. 



Copet Dagh, Trans- 



caspia. 



B. 7 to 9 scales between the eyes, 4 or 5 between the nasals and 

 tlie eye, 10 to 14 round the eye ; 10 to 14 upper labials. 



*•. Hgr. (V. 185 ; C. 23). A.slikiibad. Dr. Radde [0.]. 



t. Ilgr. (V. 179 ; C. 24). Aslikabad. M. C. Evlandt [C.l. 



u. $ (V. 180; C. 27). Ashkabad. Warsaw' Mus. [E.]. 



I'.Yg. (V. 188; C. 21). Puli llatun, Trans- M. C. Eylandt [C.]. 



caspia. 

 lo-ij. d (V. 183 ; C. 21), Ilisk, E. Turkestan. Rev. H. LansdeU 



2 (V. 185 ; C. 20), & fCl 



yg. (V. 172; C. 20). 

 z. $(V. 179; C. 22). Krasnowodsk. St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 

 a. $ (V. 184; C. 19). Tm-kestan. M. Severzow [CI. 



^. $ (V. 189; 0. 25). Robat-i-turk. Dr. J. AitcbisonfC.]. 



Afghan Boundary Commission. 

 7-8. $ (V.^ 200 ; C. 32), Bala-Morghab. Dr. J . Aitchison [C.]. 



<& yg. (V. 182 : C. 33). Afghan Boundary Commission. 



4. Eryxjohnii. 



]joa johuii, Russell, Inch Serp. ii. pi. xvi. .fc pi. xvii. fig. 1 (1801). 

 anguiformis, Schneid. Hist. Amjjh. ii. p. 209 (1801), and 



Benksrhr. Akad. Milnch. vii. 1821, p. 119, pi. viii. 

 Clothonia anguiformis, Baud. Rept. vii. p. 285 (1803). 

 Eryx anguiformis, Merr. Tent. p. 85 (1820). 

 Tortrix eryx, var. indicus, Schler/. Rhys. Serp. ii, p. 17 (1837). 

 Clothonia johnii. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 45 (1842), and Cat. p. 110 



(1849). ■_ 

 Ervx johnii, Du7n. •i^- Bibr. vi. p. 458 (1844) ; Schlrg. Bijdr. tot de 



Dierk. i. p. 2 (1848) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 334 (1804) ; Jan, 



Icon. Gen. p. 71, 1. 4, pi. i. tig. 1 (1864) ; Stoliczka, Froc. As. Soc. 



Bcng. 1872, p. 84 ; Thcob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 207 (1870) ; 



Murray, Zuol. >Si7id, p. 385 (1884) ; Bouleng. Fatm. Ind., Rept. 



p. 248 (1890). 

 maculatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. RJiilad. 1849, p. 184. 



Rostral large and broad, with angular horizontal edge ; two pairs 

 of small shields behind the rostral ; six to nine scales from eye to 

 eye across the forehead ; ten or eleveu scales round the eye, which 

 is separated from the labials by one or two rows of scales ; ten to 

 twelve upper labials. A mental groove. Scales slightly keeled, in 

 54 to 05 rows. Ventrals narrow, 192-210; anal small; sub- 

 caudals 25 to l}(i. Tail very obtuse, rounded at the end. Sandy 

 grey, reddish, or pule brown above, uniform or with more or less 

 distinct brown or blackish transverse bands ; these bands usually 

 distinct on the tail ; belly brown or spotted with blackish ; young 

 often pale coral-red. 



Total length 1000 millim. ; tail 80. 



Plains of North-western, Central, and Southern India. 



