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21. Tarentola annularis I. Geoff. S. Hil. 8 specimens bought 

 in Cairo, said to be collected at Mariut, Egypt. January 1901. 

 3 specimens from Omdurman, April 1901. 



The specimens vary in length (total length) from 190 to 

 90 mm. 



22. Agama pallida Eeuss. 4 specimens. Sinaitic Peninsula 

 June 1901. 200 — 70 mm. in total length. 



23. Agama stellio L. 5 specimens from Alexandria. About 

 alike in length; total length 275 mm (tail 150). 



24. Uromastix aegyptius Hasselq. & L. 3 specimens bought 

 in Cairo. 



N:o 1 total length 580 mm, tail 240 mm. 

 „ 2 „ „ 390 „ „ 170 „ 



„ 3 „ „ 380 „ „ 150 „ 



1 specimen from Sinaitic Peninsula. Total length 630 mm; 

 tail 270 mm. The Sinaitic specimen is much lighter than the 

 Egyptian ones. 



25. Acanthodactylus boskianus Daud. 12 specimens from 

 the Sinaitic Peninsula. June 1901. 



Ten are fullgrown specimens nearly alike in length, varying 

 from 210 to 185 mm. in total length (the tails 140 — 120 mm.). 

 The other two are young ones with the typical juvenile colour, 

 109 — 112 mm. in total length, tails 75 and 77 mm.). Of the 

 fullgrown specimens two are without black markings or streaks 

 and are uniform lightcoloured, below white, upper parts of a 

 light greyish red. 



The specimens belong to the varietas asper, having 42 to 

 48 scales round the middle of the body, none of the four supra- 

 oculars divided and 20 to 24 femoral pores. 



26. Eremias guttulata Licht. One specimen from Tor. Si- 

 naitic Peninsula. June 1901. 



Length from nose to vent 50 mm, tail (a little mutilated) 

 61 mm. A gravid female with three great eggs (12 mm. in 

 length) one in the left and two in the right oviduct, a fact 

 that shows the rightness of J. Anderson's supposition that the 

 species breeds also at other periods of the year than the usual 



