276 Lacertidx. 



Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



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

 the Punjab and Tumb Island iu the Persian Gulf. The lizard has 

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

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

 one of Blanford's MesaUna lyardalis 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 RUBROPCJNCTATA. 



Lacerta rvhropunctata , Lichteust. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 100 

 (1823). 



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



MesaUna lichtensteinli. Gray, t.c. p. 282. 



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

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

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

 Anders. Zool. Egypt, Kept. p. 182, pi. xxiii, figs. 5, (J (1898) ; Steind. 

 Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixix, 1900, p. 330; Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 

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

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



MesaUna ruhrojmnctata, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 43 (1845). 



