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W, T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C". 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. "0.]. 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.J. 



7. Agama sanguinolenta. 



Trapelus ? sanguinolentus. Gray, Cat. p. 259. 

 Lacerta sanguinolenta, Pall, Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 23. 

 Agama aralensis, Lichstenst. in Eversm. Meise, p. 144, and Verz. 



Douhl. Mus. Berl. p. 101 ; Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 185. 



oxiana, Eic/nv. l. c. 



Trapelus aralensis, Eversm. Nouv. Mem. Ac. Muse. iii. p. 366. 



sanguinolentus, Eic/no. Faun. Casp. Cauc. p. 89, pi. xiv. figs. 3, 4. 



Podorrhoa (Trapeloidis) sanguinolenta, Fitz. Syst. Rept. p. 81. 

 Agama sanguinolenta, A. Dum. Cat. Meth. liept. p. 102, and Arch. 



Mus. viii. p. 576 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 465. 

 agilis, part., Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 674. 



Head moderate, convex, subcordiform. Nostril not tubular, 

 lateral, pierced just below the canthus rostralis in the posterior 

 part of a flat nasal. Upper head-scales convex ; occipital not en- 

 larged ; a few spine-like scales on the post-temporal region ; ear- 

 opening as large as the eye-opening, partly concealed by a strong 

 fringe of spinose scales superiorly ; males with a very small gular 

 pouch. Body roundish, moderately depressed, covered above with 

 equal, rhomboidal, imbricate, very strongly keeled scales, ending in 

 a strong, spinose, raised mucro ; lateral and ventral scales much 

 smaller, distinctly keeled. Limbs moderate ; tibia nearly as long as 

 the skull (to occiput) ; third finger a little shorter than fourth, 

 fifth not extending as far as second ; third toe much shorter than 

 fourth, fifth not extending quite as far as first. Tail a little more 

 than twice as long as the distance from gular fold to vent, rounded, 

 covered with strongly keeled scales. Males with a double or triple 

 row of anal pores. Pale olive or sandy above, with or without 

 darker transverse bars interrupted by a light vertebral spot ; lower 

 surfaces paler, the throat dark blue in the breeding male. 



Total length 282 millim. 



Head 29 „ 



Width of head 25 „ 



Body 83 „ 



Fore limb 46 „ 



Hind limb 72 „ 



Tail 170 „ 



Borders of the Caspian Sea ; Central Asia ; Turkestan. 



a. cJ . Mangyschlak. _ St. Petersburg Museum [E.l 



b. (S . West Goloduaja. St. Petersburg Museum [E.J. 

 c,d. (S . Syr Darya. M, Severzow [C,]. 



