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FURTHER LIZARDS AND SNAKES FROM PERSIA AND 
MESOPOTAMIA. 
BY 
JoAN B. Procter, F.Z.S. 
Since the publication of Mr. Boulenger’s lists of the Snakes and Lizards 
collected by the Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia", further material has been 
received from Capt. H. E. Shortt, I.M.S., and Capt. W. E. Evans, R. A. M. C. ; 
Mr. Kinnear has therefore asked me to write the following addendum, in which 
species marked with an asterisk were not recorded by Mr. Boulenger. 
Besides snakes and lizards, which are the subject of this paper, the follow- 
ing were included in the collections :—Clemmys caspica (Capt. Evans), Bufo 
viridis (Capt. Evans) and Hyla arborea var. savigni (Capt. Shortt and Capt. 
Evans). 
LACERTITIA. 
GECKONID&. 
1. Alsophylax tuberculata,* Blanf. 
Jebel Hamrin, N. E. of Baghdad (Capt. Evans). 
One specimen, well marked with alternate, curved transverse bands of light. 
and dark grey; lower surfaces speckled with grey. 
Habitat + Mesopotamia, Southern Persia, Baluchistan, Sind. 
2. Phyllodactylus elise,* Werner, 
Kuretu*, Persian frontier (Capt. Shortt). 
Three specimens of this rare gecko. They show considerable variation in 
the proportions and arrangements of the mental and chin-shields. In the case of 
the first specimen the mental is moderate, followed by two pairs of chin-shields, 
the first pair in contact in the middle for a distance equalling half 
their length, as in the type-specimens; in the second the first pair of chin-shields 
are only in contact for about one-quarter of their length, the mental shield being 
larger in proportion ; in the third specimen the mental is enormous, followed by 
a single pair of large triangular chin-shields, which are not in contact with each 
other. 
This amount of variation is very unusual , were it not for the intermediate 
form one might consider the third specimen to be a distinct species. The first 
specimen is almost white ; the other two are thickly speckled with very dark 
brown. 
Habitat : Mesopotamia. Capt. Shortt tells me that he caught these geckos 
in natural caves formed by overhanging rocks. The types are from the ruins 
of Nineveh. 
3. Hemidactylus persicus,* Anders. 
Baghdad (Capt. Shortt), Amara-on-Tigris (Capt. Evans), 
Three specimens 
Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia, Sind. A new Record for Mesopotamia, 
4. Hemidactylus flaviviridis* Ruppi. 
One specimen from Amara (Capt. Evans). 
Habitat ; Arabia, Persia, Baluchistan, India and Malay Peninsula. 
+ Journ., Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvii, No. 2, pp. 347-353 (1920), 
2 Also spelled Quritu or Quraitu. 
