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[This Viper, called Dusba, was common from Quetta along our whole route to Khusan, 

 specimens being daily brought to me by the camp-followers ; except one specimen, I 

 never came across it in the Badghis. The natives say that it is common near their 

 dwellings.— J. E. T. A.] 



BATRACHIA. 

 ECAUDATA. 



1. BANA ESCULENTA, L., Var. EIDIBUNDA, Pall. 

 Rana esculenta, Blanford, torn. cit. p. 432. 



1 (Tadpole) specimen. Quetta to Nushki. 



2 specimens. Turbat. 



2. Bufo virxdis, Laur. 



Bufo viridis, Blanford, torn. cit. p. 434 ; Boulenger, torn. cit. p. 297. 



1 specimen. Quetta to Nushki. 



2 specimens. Bala-morghab. 



Numerous specimens from Tirphul, Karez-badak, Kisbmaru. 

 Numerous Tadpoles from streams at base of Alt. Do-Sbakh. 



[At Puza-gish I found the Erogs suffering from Leeches attached to them ; this Leech, 

 Mr. Jeffrey Bell tells me, is the common one of our own lakes, Aulostomum gulo 

 [A. niyrescens), and that the presence of this species in Lake Baikhal has been already 

 signalized by Grube (Sitzungsb. Schles. Gesell. xlix. p. 55), but he does not know that 

 it has ever been reported to attach itself to Frogs. 



The above localities extend the area of this species of Bufo from Northern Baluchistan 

 to the valley of the Hari-rud, Badghis, and Khorasan. — J. E. T. A.] 



EXPLANATION OE THE PLATES. 

 Plate VIII. 



Fig. 1. Teratoscincus scincus, Scbleg. 



Fig. 1 a. „ „ Upper view of end of snout, enlarged. 



Fig. 1 b. „ „ Side „ „ „ 



Fig. 1 c. „ „ Chin, enlarged. 



Fig. 2. Phrynocephalus olivieri, D. & B., male. 



Fig. 2 a. „ „ female. 



Fig. 3. Phrynocephalus ornatus, Blgr. Adult, upper view. 



Fig. 3 a. „ „ „ lower view. 



Fig. 3 6. „ ,, „ upper view of head, enlarged. 



Fig. 3 c. „ „ Half-grown, upper view. 



Fig. 4. Phrynocephalus luleoguttatus, Blgr. Adult, upper view. 



Fig. 4 a. „ „ „ lower view. 



Fig. 4i. ,, „ „ upper view of head, enlarged. 



Fig. 4 c. „ „ Half-grown, upper view. 



