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AGAMID®. 
5. Agama persica, Blanf. 
Two specimens from Amara (Capt. Evans). 
Note by Capt. Evans :—- 
“ This lizard had the power of producing the purple-blue colour under its face 
and neck, and along its sides ; or of losing the colour entirely, except a faint rusty 
tinge on the sides only. The change could be accomplished ina minute or two. 
I had it alive for some time.” 
Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia. 
6. Agama nupta, De Fil. 
One specimen from Jebel Hamrin (Capt. Evans). 
One specimen from Kuretu, (Capt. Shortt). 
Var. fusca,* Blanf. 
One specimen, ¢ from Kangavar (Capt. Shortt). 
This specimen must be regarded as var. fusca on account of the great develop- 
ment of the spines on the head and neck, and the indistinctness of the nuchal fold. 
Its colouration is different from the true fusca, being dark grey, mottled with black 
on the neck and shoulders ; throat black instead of yellow ; enlarged dorsal 
scales greenish grey. 
Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia, Baluchistan. 
7. Uromastix loricatus,* Blanf. 
One specimen from Ruz, N. E. of Baghdad (Capt. Evans), 
Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia. 
A new record for Mesopotamia. 
LACERTID &, 
8. <Acanthodactylus scutellatus, Anders. 
One specimen from Jebel Hamrin (Capt. Evans), 
Habitat : Senegambia, North Africa, Somaliland, Sinaitic Peninsula, Syria. 
Mesopotamia. 
9. Ophiops elegans, Mén. 
Var. ehrenbergiz, Wiegm. 
Four specimens, from Kuretu, (Capt. Shortt). 
Five specimens from Jebel Hamrin, Kizil Robat, and Abu Sidra on Tigris 
(Capt. Evans). 
Habitat: Constantinople and Tripolito N. W. India. 
10. Hremias velow,* Pall. 
Var. persica, Blanf. 
One specimen from Kuretu (Capt. Shortt) 
Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia. 
ScINCID =, 
11. Mabuia vittata, Oliv. 
‘One specimen from Amara (Capt. Evans). 
Habitat : Algeria to Mesopotamia. 
12. Mabuia septemteniata, Reuss. 
One specimen from Kuretu (Capt. Shortt). 
Two from Amara (Capt. Evans). 
Habitat ; Erythrea to Transcaspia and Sind. 
