672 MR. W. T. BLANFORD ON PERSIAN REPTILES. [JuilC 7, 



above the sea ; Abadeh, at 6000 feet, is a higher locality than any 

 previously recorded. 



In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1879, vol. 

 xlviii. p. 129, I mentioned that Dr. Peters had written to me that 

 the Lizard from Persia and Western India referred by Mr. Blyth, 

 Mr. Theobald, Dr. Anderson, and myself, to the present species is 

 really the Lacerta sanguinolenta of Pallas, and Agama aralensis of 

 Lichtenstein, and that it must be distinguished from the true 

 A. agilis of Olivier, which is a form allied to A. (Trapelus) ruderata. 

 As I had not Olivier's work in Calcutta, I could not go into this 

 question ; but now, after doing so, I am inclined to retain the name of 

 A. agilis for the Persian form. 



I have again compared the Persian, Baluchistan, and Sind spe- 

 cimens, of which there is now a fine series in the British Museum, 

 with Olivier's original description and figure, and with the more de- 

 tailed characters given by Dumeril and Bibron (/. c). I have also 

 gone carefully through Pallas's description of Lacerta sanguino- 

 lenta *, Eichwald's description and figure of Agama sanguinolenta ^, 

 Lichtenstein's description oi Agama aralensis^, and, lastly, Riippell's 

 figure and description of Trapelus flavimaculatus * from Arabia ; and 

 I have examined the specimens in the Paris and Berlin Museums. 



Besides the series from Persia, Baluchistan, and Sind, mostly col- 

 lected by myself, there are in the British Museum good adults of a 

 form labelled Agama sanguinolenta hom three localities— Syr Darya 

 (the river Jaxartes), Mangyschlak (doubtless the place of that name 

 on the Caspian Sea), and West Goladnaja (I do not know the 

 locality; but it is doubtless Central Asiatic, as the specimen was 

 received from the St. -Petersburg Museum). The specimens from 

 Syr Darya were collected by Severtzoff, and have been labelled 

 Stellio aralensis. There is besides a young individual from Arabia, 

 bearing the name Agama Jlavimaculata. 



There are in the Paris Museum, amongst the specimens referred 

 to Agama agilis, two that were collected by OHvier. I see no 

 reason to doubt that these, which are mentioned in C. Dumeril's 

 Catalogue, are two of the original types. They and some other spe- 

 cimens in the same Museum, brought by Aucher-Eloy from Persia, 

 appear to me (so far as 1 can judge without absolutely placing 

 the specimens side by side) to be identical with the form I have 

 already referred to Olivier's species. The figure and the brief cha- 

 racters in Olivier's work, and the much fuller description given by 

 Dumeril and Bibron, agree well with the Persian and Sind form, except 

 that in both accounts the ventral scales are said to be smooth. This 



' Zoog. Eos.-As. iii. p. 23. 



^ Fauna Caspio-cauoasica, p. 89, pi. xiv. figs. 3, 4. 



3 Eversmann's ' Eeise tou Orenburg nach Bucliara,' p. 144. 



* Neue Wirbelthiere, Amphibien, p. 12, pi. vi. fig. 1. By Dumeril and 

 Bibron this reference is incorrectly given ; and Riippell's Atlas, Reise nordl. 

 Afrika, is quoted instead of the later work. In Gray's ' Catalogue of Lizards ' 

 the synonymy for Agama agilis is the same as in Dumeril and Bibron's work ; 

 and as the misquotation is repeated, the references were probably copied without 

 verification. 



