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thus closely approaching, with respect to these characters, Strauch's 

 G. fedtscheni-oi, which is described as having 30 to 32 rows of 

 ventrals, and 34 to 37 pores. In fact, one of the specimens (no. 16) 

 in the above list has been referred by Boettger to G. fedtschenkoi. 

 As to the otlier characters taken from the tubercles on the back of 

 the head and body, I find so much variation within certain limits 

 in our specimens, all undoubtedly of one and the same species, that 

 I should have endorsed Boettger's opinion that G . fedtschenkoi may 

 after all not be specifi^cally separable from G. caspius, if it were not 

 for the recent accession of a specimen from Kelif, Bokhara, which I 

 regard as representing the true G. fedtschenkoi. 



Gymnodactylus fedtschenkoi, Strauch. 



A single specimen from Kelif, Bokhara. Tubercles smaller than 

 in G. caspius, more as in G. scaler, strongly keeled but not trihedral 

 on the back, where they form 12 series ; round and convex, not 

 keeled, on the occiput and temples. 30 scales across the middle of 

 the belly. Although a female, the specimen shows, as mere 

 impressions, a series of 29 femoro-prgeanal pores. 



EUBLEPHARIS MACXJLARIUS, Blyth. 



I have related (Ann. & Mag. N. H. vi. 1890, p. 352) the curious 

 circumstance under which the presence of this Lizard near Ashabad 

 was ascertained by M. Eylandt. 



Eremias guttulata, Licht. 



I have examined specimens from the Copet Dagh (Nazaroff) 

 and Puli Hatun (Eylandt). As I have not found specimens of 

 Lacerta muralis among the collections made in those localities, 

 it is probable that the Lizards mentioned by Boettger {I.e. p. 907) 

 as having been seen, but not captured, by Walter on the northern 

 slope of the Copet Dagh belonged to Eremias guttulata, 



EuMECES scuTATUs, Theobald. 



This Scink was known from Sind, Cutch, the Punjab, and 

 Cashmere. Its discovery by M. Eylandt so far west as Puli Hatun 

 is therefore of considerable importance. All the 15 specimens 

 examined have 21 scales round the middle of the body and two 

 azygous postmentals ; in one specimen the frontoparietals form a 

 very short median suture, in the others the frontal is in contact with 

 the interparietal. Pale brown or olive-grey above, white beneath ; 

 the small specimens have three darker longitudinal bands and are 

 spotted with black, the black spots heing crowded and intermixed 

 with white ones on the lateral bands ; upper surfaces and sides of 

 tail with black spots very regularly disposed, a spot occupying every 

 other scale in each longitudinal series. These markings may almost 

 completely disappear in the adult. The largest specimen measures 

 300 milUm., the tail entering for 180. 



E. scutatus occurs at Puli Hatun in company with E. schneideri, 

 both species being well represented in M. Eylandt's collection. 



