620 ON REPTILES ETC. FROM BALUCHISTAN, [NoV. 30, 



3. On a Collection of Ueptiles and Amphibians from Balu- 

 cliistan made by Dr. C. Duke in April and May, 1877. 

 By A. A. W. HuBRECHT. M^itli a Note by W. T. 

 Blaxford, F.Z.S.i 



[Received October J7, 1880.] 



Having been requested by Mr. Francis Day, F.L.S., F.Z.S., of 

 Cheltenham, to name and accept for tlie Leiden Museum the above- 

 mentioned collection of Reptiles and Amphibians, I have had great 

 pleasure in complying with this wish, and may here be allowed to 

 give the list of the different species it contains. Although there are 

 no novelties amongst them, still our knowledge of the geographical 

 distribution of certain species may profit by such enumerations, 

 especially in the case of a country like Baluchistan, which by its 

 position on the border between the Palaearctic and Oriental regions 

 has an increased interest for the student of geographical zoology. 



1. Calotes versicolor, Daud. 



Nal. An adult specimen. The species has already been recorded 

 from Afghanistan and Baluchistan (Blanford). 



2. Agama agilis, Oliv. 



NiiL This species is exceedingly common in Persia {Blanford), 

 and has also been obtained in the Punjab and in Sind. 



3. Stellio caucasicus, Eichw. 

 Nal. One fine specimen, adult, 



4. Agamura cruralis, Blanf. 



Of this interesting Gecko with its Agamoid affinities, one speci- 

 men was captured at N;il. Blanford's type specimens all came 

 from Baluchistan (W. T. Blanford, 'Eastern Persia,' vol. ii. 

 p. 356, pi. xxiii. f. 3). The specimen is unfortunately deprived of 

 its tail. 



5. ACANTHODACTYLUS MICROPHOLIS, W. Blauf. /. C. p. 383, 



pi. xxvi. f. 2. 



Like the foregoing species this one was first described by Blanford 

 from specimens from Baluchistan. A specimen was captured at 

 Neil which decidedly belongs to this species, although the keels on 

 the dorsal scales are much less conspicuous, 



6. Taphrometopum lineolatum, Brandt, Bull, de I'Acad. Sc, 

 St. Pctersb. iii. p. 243 ; Blanford, /. c. p, 422. 



One specimen from Quetta. 



' Coiiimunicat'-'d by Mr. F. Day, F.Z.S. 



