20. PHRYNOCEPHALUa. 371 



feebly denticulated. Tibia longer than the skull. Tail round, 

 gradually tapering to a fine point, covered with smooth or slightly 

 keeled scales ; on the basal portion of the tail they are intermixed 

 with enlarged conical scales ; the length of the tail equals once and 

 two thirds to a little more than twice the distance from gular fold 

 to vent. Grey above, marbled with darker and guttate with lighter ; 

 sometimes a blackish cross band behind the scapular region, and 

 another in front of the sacral region ; sometimes a large zone on 

 the middle of the back uniform light grey ; limbs and tail with 

 blackish cross bars, on the latter forming annuli which are deep 

 black on the lower surface ; body and limbs inferiorly white. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Head 11-5 



Width of head 12 



Body 31-5 



Fore limb 27 



Hind limb 39 



Tail 62 



Persia ; Baluchistan. 



Persia. Marquis G. Doria [P.l. 



Raven, S.E. of Karraan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.l 



Near Rigan, Narmashir, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.J 



S.E. Persia. 



Between Tehran and W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C] 



Kazvin. 



Ghistigan, Bampusht, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.] 



Baluchistan. 



Near Bampur, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C] 



2. Phrynocephalus helioscopiis. 



Phryuocephalus helioscopus, Oray^ Cat. p. 260. 

 Lacerta helioscopa, Pall. Reise, i. p. 457. 



uralensis, Gmel. S. N. p. 1073. 



Stellio helioscopa, Latr. Rept. ii. p. 30. 



■ uralensis, Latr. I. c. p. 39. 



Agama helioscopa, Daud, Rept. iii. p. 419 ; Lieht. in Eversm. Reise, 



p. 144. 



uralensis, Daud. I. c. p. 422. 



Phrynocephalus uralensis, Fitz. N. Class. Rept. p. 47. 



helioscopus, Wagl. 8yst. Aniph. p. 144; Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. 



p. 186; Oravenh. N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xvi. 1833, ii. p. 934, 



pi. Ixiv. figs. 9, 14 ; Eversm. N. Mim. Soc. Moscou, iii. 1834, p. 364, 



pi. xxxii. fig. 3 ; Dum. 8f Bibr. iv. p. 619. 

 persicus, De Filippi, Arch. p. la Zool, ii. p. 387, and Viagg. Pers. 



p. 353 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 388, fig. ; Blanf. Zool. 



E. Pers. p. 329. 



Forehead convex, with enlarged convex scales ; occipital scales 

 enlarged ; median supraorbital scales as large as, or rather smaller 

 than, the median dorsals ; nostril directed forwards ; nasal separated 

 from its fellow by three to fi.ve (exceptionally one) longitudinal 



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