242 
THE EEPTILES OF EGYPT. 
General colour pale reddish brown or greyish brown, with numerous smaller and 
more broken-up spots than in E. thebaicus, of a dark brown or purplish-brown colour, 
irregular in their arrangement, more or less anastomosing, and somewhat transverse 
in their disposition, and smallest on the sides ; a forwardly curved, dark brown 
band between the eyes anteriorly, a similar band from the eye to the angle of the 
mouth, and usually two short, narrow, parallel, similarly coloured lines on the nape. 
Underparts yellowish white. 
It attains to a total length of 695 millim., of which the tail measures 45 millim. 
Measurements (millim.) and other details of 
E. jaculus, Hassela. 
& Linn. 
Sex. 
Total 
length. 
Tail. 
Ven- 
trals. 
Anal. 
Cau- 
dals. 
Scales. 
Scales 
between 
eyes. 
Scales 
round 
eyes. 
Scales 
between 
eyes & 
labials. 
Scales 
between 
eyes & 
nasals. 
Upper 
labials. 
Mental 
groove. 
Locality. 
9 
530 
45 
184 
1 
22 
48 
7 
10 
1 
3 
11 
Present. 
f Egypt(type),Stoek- 
\ holm Museum. 
9 
390 
32 
193 
1 
19 
48 
7 
n 
1 
3 
11 
„ 
>, 
2 
390 
23 
197 
1 
18 
46 
7 
10 
1 
3 
10 
„ 
Belrim. 
Juv. 
213 
16 
194 
1 
20 
45 
7 
10 
1-2 
3 
10 
„ 
Mahallet el Kebir. 
2 
495 
41 
187 
1 
24 
50 
7 
9 
1 
2 
11 
„ 
Abbasiyeh, Cairo. 
2 
695 
45 
199 
1 
18 
46 
7 
10 
1-2 
3 
10 
„ 
Abu Roash. 
9 
612 
46 
194 
1 
47 
8 
10 
1 
3 
10 
„ 
)> I) 
? 
465 
40 
181 
1 
25 
45 
7 
9 
1-2 
3 
11 
„ 
Gizeh. 
6 
372 
35 
187 
1 
25 
47 
8 
11 
1 
3 
10 
„ 
,, 
2 
455 
34 
192 
1 
22 
43 
7 
10 
2 
3 
11 
„ 
Heluan. 
6 
500 
37 
200 
1 
23 
51 
10 
1 
3 
10 
.. 
f Neighbourhood of 
| Cairo. 
9 
185 
23 
45 
7 
13 
4 
13 
., 
Askabad. 
9 
179 
24 
45 
7 
12-13 
4 
12 
„ 
„ 
2 
180 
27 
49 
8 
13-14 
5 
14 
„ 
Juv. 
188 
21 
47 
9 
13 
4 
12 
» 
f Pul-i-Khatim, 
\ Transeaspia. 
6 
183 
21 
45 
8 
11 
4 
11 
.. 
Ilisk, E. Turkestan. 
2 
185 
20 
43 
9 
12-11 
4 
11-10 
„ 
» » 
Juv. 
1 .... | .. 
172 
20 
45 
9 
10 
3-4 
10-11 
<> 
!» 11 
Eryx elegans, Gray. ( 
Type.) 
2 
.... 1 . . 184 
.. 1 24 
36 1 7 1 9 1 1 
3 
10 j „ 1 Afghanistan. 
