Aporosaura. 



375 



Measurements of males (in millimetres) : 

 From cikI of snout to vent 



,, ,, .. fore liuili 



Length of head . . . . 



Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 

 Foot 



22 20 20 



ParfifuJars of Specimens Exaniuied. 



c^.Tvpe 



1. Length from snout to vent (in millimetres). 2. Scales across middle of 

 body. 3. Ventral plates in longest transverse series. 4 Transverse series of 

 ventral plates. 5. Scales in collar. 6. Lamellar scales tinder fourth toe. 

 7. Upper labials to below centre of eye. 



Habitat. — West of Eobat I., on the limit between Baluchistan and 

 Afgdianistan, where the lizard was found in abundance by the 

 Members of the Afghan-Baluch Boundary Commission of 1896, after 

 one of whom, Sir A. H. McMahon, the i^enus has been named. 



21. APOROSAURA. 



Pachyrhynchns (mm Spix), Bocage, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx, 1867, 

 p. 226; Strauch, Mtd. Biol. Ac. St. Pt'tersb, vi, 1867, p. 408; Lataste, 

 Ann. Mus. Genova (2) ii, 1885, p. 126; Bocage, Herp. Angola, p. 33 

 (1895). 



Aporosaura, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 117 (1887). 



Head wide and flattened ; snout much depressed, wide, 

 spatulate, with trenchant margins greatly exceeding the 

 outline of the mouth. Head-shields normal, but no occi- 

 pital. Nostril pierced between three nasals, widely 

 separated from the first upper labial. Lower eyelid scaly. 

 No collar. Dor.^al scales granular. Ventral plates 



