? Kasligai", Chinese Turkestan 



P.M 

 (J Chinese Turkestan, P.M. . 



Alashan Desert, Monu'olia 



Var. sahivata. 

 ^ Kuenluon Valleys, S. of Yarkand 



(type) 55 56 16 32 11 27 11 23 9-7 



„ „ 50 49 18 30 10 20 11 21 7 



? „ „ „ 51 50 10 31 10 23 10 7 21 8 



„ Kutchar Oasis, P.M. . . . 67 55 16 34 11 23 12-11 21 7-6 



„ . . . 67 62 16 31 12 26 13-12 24 7 



Habitat. — The type is from between Same and the Tohx River, Gobi 

 Desert of Mongolia, and the species has since been rediscovered in 

 other parts of Mongolia, as far south as the Alashan Desei-t, and 

 appears to be extensively distributed in Chinese Turkestan (Tian Shan, 

 Kashgar, Yarkand, Sarikol, etc.). It is also recorded from Repetek in 

 Transcaspia by Elpatjewsky and Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxiv, 

 1906, p. 252. 



I am rather embarrassed how to deal with Ereniias hiieclineri, Bedr. 

 A specimen from the Alashan Desert, received under that name from 

 the Petrograd Museum in 1899,* although agreeing fairly well in form 

 and markings with Bedriaga's figure, has the rostral as broad as deep 

 and the nasals scarcely swollen, and cannot be separated from E. 

 tmiltiocellata, var. yarlcandensis. Not having had access to Bedriaga's 

 material, I cannot do better than give a translation of his diagnosis, 

 and leave to the future to decide whether I am justified in placing 

 E. huechneri in the synonymy of E. nmltiocellata. It is, however, 

 possible that the specimens with strongly swollen nasals belong to a 

 distinct species. 



Eremias huechneri. Total length 163 millini. Habit slender and 

 elongate ( 9 ) or more sturdy {($). Head pyramidal or platycephal ; 

 snout long, pointed, rounded at the end ; limbs short and robust ; tail 

 thick, less than -5 of the total length. No occipital ; parietals longer 

 than broad ; frontoparietals longer than broad ; no scales between the 

 second and third supraoculars ; frontal shorter or longer than, or as 

 long as the transverse axis of the frontoparietals ; no scales between 



* The Alashan specimens appear to have been referred since to E, muUi- 

 ocellatOf. 



