380 EEPTILIA AND AMPHIBIA OP LAKE TJRMI. 



A youBg specimen from Shazalan Island (73 millim. from 

 snout to vent) agrees in the proportions and the number of scales 

 (28 round the body) with the Koyun Daghi examples, but the 

 back is marked with four blackish stripes, in addition to which 

 every other scale in every longitudinal series bears a central 

 yellowish spot. This system of coloration is closely approached by 

 that of a young specimen from Jerusalem in the British Museum, 

 which differs only in having a blackish line bordering the belly 

 below the yellow lateral stripe. 



A study of the juvenile livery of this species would be a great 

 help towards the establishment of geographical varieties ; but it 

 is a most curious, and to me unaccountable fact, that young 

 specimens of the common Palsearctic Eumeces are extremely rare 

 in collections. I have only seen three of E. ScJineideri and not 

 one of E. algeriensis. 



OPHIDIA. 



6. Ertx jaculus, L. 



A single specimen from Seir, near TJrmi. It agrees in every 

 respect with the typical or Western form, the habitat of which 

 is known to extend from Greece and the Ionian Islands to Lower 

 Egypt and Persia; the Eastern form, var. miliaris, with smaller 

 head-shields, inhabiting Transcaspia, Turkestan, and Afghanistan. 

 The Urmi specimen has 5 scales between the eyes, 3 between 

 posterior nasal and eye, 9 round the eye, and 9 upper labials 

 on each side. 48 scales across the thickest part of the body. 

 Ventrals 186 ; subcaudals 18. 



7. Teopidonotits tessellatus, Laur. ' 



Eastern shore of L. Urmi, Seir, Maragha. Four specimens. 



This is a common and widely-distributed snake ; but one of the 

 specimens is of interest in having the upper labials almost 

 excluded from the eye by the suboculars, merely the point of the 

 fourth labial penetrating between the latter. Specimens of this 

 species may probably turn up some day with the labials entirely 

 excluded from the eye, as in Tropidonotus ferox, anoscopiis, and 

 cyclopium. 



BATRAOHIA. 



8. Eatsta esculent a, L. 



Several specimens, half-grown, young, and larvae, belonging to 

 the var. ridibunda, Pall. Ocksa, Superghan, Maragha, Kirjawa. 



