94 DE. J. E. T. AITCHISON ON THE ZOOLOGY OF 



REPTILES and BATRACHIANS. 



By G. A. Boulenger, Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum. 



REPTILIA. 



CHELONIA. 



1. Testudo horsfieldii, Gray. 



Testudo horsfieldii, Gray, Cat. Tort. &c. 1844, p. 7 ; Blanford, E. Pers. ii. p. 308. 



12 specimens. Gulran, Badghis. 

 [Local names Kashif, Kashaf, Sang-toti, Sang-pusht, Lach-pusht, Tosh-bakke, Shamshatu. 



Along the entire march from Quetta to Pahir (13th November, 1884) the remains of 

 Tortoises were seen ; at the latter place the first live specimen was got, living in a dry 

 water-course, full of limestone debris, the disintegration of the surrounding rocks and 

 hills, in a locality utterly devoid of vegetation, as far as I could see, and where I should 

 never have expected to find any animal. On the 23rd February, in our march from a 

 camp without name to Gulran, numbers of the empty shells of Tortoise eggs were seen 

 lying on the sides of several streams, as if washed there by floods, the eggs in all pro- 

 bability having been emptied in the first place of their contents by rats. 



Whilst at Gulran early in March, numbers were noticed wandering over the great 

 rolling plains, the warmth of spring having enticed them from their winter-quarters, 

 and there was herbage sufficiently grown to prevent their being easily detected. It is 

 curious to note that out of the large number I saw and collected, I only got one species. 

 I do not recollect, nor have I noted, ever having seen a single specimen in that part of 

 Khorasan over which I travelled. — J. E. T. A.] 



LACERTILIA. 



2. Teratoscincus scincus (Schleg.). (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



Teratoscincus keyserlingii, Blanford, torn. cit. p. 354. 

 Teratoscincus scincus, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. i. p. 12. 



The specimen measures 200 millim., in which the tail enters for 77. Cream-coloured, 

 with a few black spots on the back, and four brick-red longitudinal bands ; three 

 blackish vertical bars down the lips on each side. 



[One specimen only of this rare Lizard was picked up, on the 17th May, 1885 (no. 325), 

 amongst stones on the banks of the Hari-rud river near Tirphul. This would give as its 

 known area the country between Lash-Jowain, Karman and Tirphul. — J. E. T. A.] 



3. Stenodactyltjs lttmsdenii. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 



Stenodactylus lumsdenii, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. iii. p. 479. 



Snout much longer than the diameter of the orbit, or the distance between the latter 

 and the ear ; forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening vertically oval, one third the 



