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fourth and subconic, Scales of toes serrated ; claws pale yellowish, 

 long and pointed. Uniform olive-grey in spirit, almost pale yellow 

 on the hands and feet. Sides of body and upper surface of extre- 

 mities and of the tail with a few scattered minute blackish spots. A 

 very obscure yellowish spot with a dark blue margin on each side of 

 the neck. Sides of the tail with rather large brownish spots ; under 

 surface whitish. The chin and throat obscurely black-spotted. 

 Labials with black spots. 



Length from snout to vent 2"; vent to tip of tail 2" 1"'; snout 

 to occiput 5'"; neck (above) 2'"; anterior extremity 11'"; posterior 

 extremity 1" 6". 



Hub. Awada, seven days north of Shiraz, Persia. 



Prof. Filippi, who apparently describes the colours from a pale 

 specimen, gives the ground-colour as an earthy, somewhat reddish 

 grey ; and the under surface he mentions as a dirty white with 

 somewhat of a rose colour, the throat with vermicular lines forming 

 an azure-grey marbling. He describes the side of the neck with a 

 large indigo ash-coloured spot surrounded by a delicate rusty- 

 coloured band, which the action of alcohol causes quickly to dis- 

 appear. Some brown angulated spots on the sides of the back are 

 also described by its discoverer, and two similar ones at the base of 

 tbe tail ; after these occur other spots more numerous and more 

 rounded ; a few other transverse brown spots on the legs. 



Prof. Filippi says that the above markings are quite constant, 

 and that the species is profusely spread over the desert countries of 

 Sultanieh and Teheran. 



It is closely allied to P. helioscopus, Kaup, from which it is dis- 

 tinguished by the shorter and more rounded head, the long fringed 

 scales of its lower eyelid, the five rows of scales between the nasals, 

 the greater size of the tubercles over the auricular region, their an- 

 terior prolongation, along with the more dilated base of its tail. 



Fig. 6. 



Phri/nocephalm maculatus. 



Phrynocephalus maculatus, n. s. (Fig. 6.) 



Ear hidden. Scales small, smooth, directed backwards and up- 

 wards. A few lines of keeled scales on the lower arms and legs ; 



