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A LIST OF LIZARDS FROM MESOPOTAMIA. 



COLLECTED BY MEMBERS OF THE MFSOPOTi^MIAN EXPEDITIONARY 



FORCE, 1915 TO 1919. 



BY 



G. A. BOULENGER, LL.D., D.SC, F.R.S. 



The following is an enumeration of the Lizards sent to the Bombay 

 Natural History Society's Museum during the Mesopotamia Expedition 

 which Mr. Kinnear has entrusted to me for identification. I have also 

 referred to the specimens presented to the British Museum by Capt. P. A. 

 Buxton, Major C. Christy, and Capt. C. L. Boulenger : — 



GECKONID.^. 



1. Ceramodactylus dorice, Blanf. 



Zobeya, Lower Mesopotamia (Capt. F, C. Fraser). 

 Habitat : Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia. 



2. Gymnodactylus scaber, Ptupp. 



Amara (Capt. P. A. Buxton), Basra (Lt.-Col. F. Wall). 



Habitat: Egypt, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan, Sind. 



3. Hemidaclylus flaviridis, Riipp. (coctoei,!). and B.) 

 Basra (Lt.-Col. F. Wall, Lt.-C-l. F. P. Connor). 



Habitat : Coasts of the Red Sea and of the Persian Gulf, Socotra, Mekran 

 Coast, India, Burma. 



EUBLEPHARIDx*:. 



4. Eublepharis macularius, Blyth. 

 Mesopotamia (Capt. H. T. Mackenzie). 



Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia, Transcaucasia, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind. 



AGAMID.*:. 



5. Agamapersica, Blanf. 



Euphrates Barrage (Capt. C. R. Pitman), Faleya, Euphrates (Capt. F, W. 

 Mackenzie), Bagdad (Capt. R. W. Kingston), Amara (Lt.-Col. F. P. 

 Connor), Zobeya (Capt. P. C. Fraser). 



Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia. 



6. Agama ruderata, Oliv. 



Faleya (Capt. H. L. Mackenzie), Amara (Lt.-Col. F. P. Connor), Zobeya 

 (Capt. F. C. Fraser, Lt. T. R. Livesey), Basra (Lt.-Col. F. P. Dickinson, 

 Maj. E. H. Martin). 



Habitat : Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia, Sind. Also 

 Egypt and Nubia. A. pallida, Reuss, should be regarded as a variety of 

 this species, as some of the specimens from Mesopotamia tend to show. 



7. Agama nupta, De Fil. 

 Mesopotamia (Capt. H. T. Mackenzie). 

 Habitat: Mesopotamia, Persia, Baluchistan. 



8. Phrynccephalus maculatus, Andera. 

 Zobeya (Capt. F. C. Fraser). 



Habitat : Mesopotamia, Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan. 



9. Uromastix microlepis, Blanf. 



Zobeya (Lt. T, R, Livesey), Mesopotamia (Lt.-Col. F. P. Connor). 

 Habitat : Head of the Persian Gulf. 



