352 Miscellaneous. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Occurrence o/Eublepharis macularius in Transcaspia, 



By G. A. BOTILENGEK. 



Euhlepliaris macularius, Blyth, has long been known as an inhabi- 

 tant of North- western India, not uncommon in the Punjab and 

 Sind. In 1885 I was able to record it from much further west, 

 Dr. Sauvage having submitted to me a specimen obtained by M. de 

 Saulcy in the ruins of Nineveh. This lizard now turns up in 

 Southern Transcaspia. M. C. Eylandt has sent me a tail, collected 

 by him under peculiar circumstances near Ashkabad, and which 

 belongs to Euhlepharis macularius. M. Eylandt had noticed a bird 

 of prey flying off with a lizard which it had captured ; on approach- 

 ing the spot whence the bird had risen, this gentleman found the 

 detached tail of the lizard wriggling on the ground. As it differs 

 considerably from the tails of any lizard previously observed in that 

 district, the object was carefully preserved and submitted to me for 

 identification. 



Additional Notes on Peripatus Leuckarti. 

 By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 



Some account is given of forty-two specimens of Peripatus from 

 three new localities in this colony — Mount Kosciusko, the Blue 

 Mountains, and Dunoon, on the Ilichmond River — all collected since 

 the last occasion on which the attention of the Society was drawn 

 to this species. Apart from the interest attaching to the occurrence 

 of the specimens from Mount Kosciusko at high altitudes (5000- 

 5700 feet), where for several months in the year the ground is 

 covered with snow, the collection as a whole is remarkable for the 

 interesting variations "of colour and pattern which are presented, but 

 chiefly for the unusual abundance (50 per cent.) of males, the 

 characters of which were not found to be precisely in agreement 

 with those of the only two male specimens hitherto recorded; that 

 is to say, round whitish papillae were found on some or all of the 

 legs, with the exception of those of the first pair (not merely on the 

 last pair, as in the specimens of Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Dendy), and 

 a similar state of things was found to obtain in five other males 

 from other localities. On the papiUaj open the ducts of the crural 

 glands, as shown by sections ; even when papillae are not visible the 

 apertures of the ducts in well-preserved specimens are generally 

 noticeable. Attention is also called to the presence of a pair of 

 pores on the ventral surface between the genital aperture and the 

 anus, but nearer to the latter, which may possibly be the openings 

 of the ducts of accessory glands. The majority of the specimens 

 (thirty-five) were obtained at Mount Kosciusko by Mr. R. Helms, 

 on behalf of the Australian Museum. — Linn. Soc. of New South 

 Wales, Abstract of Proceedings, 30th July, 1890, p. vii. 



