100 THE EEPTILES OF EGYPT. 
Agama pallida, Eeuss. (Fig. 6.) 
? Agama deserti, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. Berl. 1823, p. 101. 
Agama ruderata {non Olivier), Audouin, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. (1828?) p. 169; Suppl. 
Eept. pi. i. figs. 6. i to 6. s; Hart, Fauna & Flora of Sinai &c. 1891, p. 210. 
Agama pallida, Reuss, Mus. Senek. Bd. i. 1834, p. 38, Taf. iii. fig. 3; Boulenger, Cat. Lizards 
Brit. Mus. 2nd ed. vol. i. 1885, p. 348 j Parenti e Picaglia, Rett, ed Anfibi Mar Rosso, 1886, 
p. 17; Boettger, Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 50; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, 
ix. 1894, no. 166, p. 6 ; Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 99. 
Agama loricata, Reuss, 1. c. p. 40. 
Agama nigrofasciata, Reuss, 1. c. p. 42. 
Agama leucostygma, Reuss, 1. c. p. 44 ; part., Boettger, Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 49. 
Agama mutabilis, Riippell {part.), Mus. Senck. Bd. iii. 1845, p. 302; Dum. & Bibr. {part.) Erpet. 
Gen. t. iv. 1837, p. 505 ; part., A. Dum. Cat. Rept. Paris Mus. 1851, p. 103; Blanford, 
Eastern Persia, vol. ii. Zool. & Geol. 1876, p. 316 ; part., Lortet, Arcb. Mus. Lyon, 1883, iii. 
p. 187. 
Trapelus agyptius, Duvernoy, Cuv. Regn. An. (1836-46), Reptiles, p. 54, pi. 14. fig. 2. 
Trapelus ruderatus {non Oliv.), Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 258. 
1 2 . Tor, Sinaitic Peninsula. 
8 <J and 5 ? . East o£ Suez to Ain Musa. 
2 £ and 3 2 . Beltim, between Damietta and Rosetta. Dr. J. G. Rogers. 
2 J and 2 2 . Plain of Kafr Gamus, Matariyeb. 
1 £ and 1 $ . Abbasiyeh, near Cairo. Brigadier-General H. M. L. Rundle, C.M.G., D.S.O. 
2 cf and 3 $ . Neighbourhood of Cairo. 
2 g and 1 2 . Neighbourhood of Cairo. Dr. Walter Innes. 
1 (J and 1 ? . Mokattam Hills. Dr. Walter Innes. 
2 6 ■ Kafr Amar, below Wasta. 
2 6 and 2 2 • Tel el Amarna. Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L. 
2 6 and 2 2- Tel el Amarna. 
1 2 . Lower Egypt. A. R. Birdwood, Esq. 
Body rather short and depressed ; head convex and cordate, its temporal breadth 
about equalling its length ; the nostril on the canthus rostralis in the hinder part of 
the nasal ; ear smaller than the eye-opening, with a feeble fringe of two or more 
pointed scales along its upper border. Tibia variable, generally shorter than the skull, 
rarely equal to it, and exceptionally longer than the skull. The fore limb, when laid 
forwards, has the wrist generally reaching the snout, occasionally in advance of it, 
sometimes only reaching the nostril, and more rarely to between the eye and the 
nostril ; the tip of the fourth toe, when the hind limb is extended forwards, usually 
reaches the ear, or midway between the ear and the eye, and in a few cases even to the 
eye, and is rarely so short as only to reach the shoulder. Tail depressed at the base 
