568 A. Alcock & F. Yinn— Afghan-Baluch EeptiUa. [No. 4, 



The lizards were only to be seen eitlier in the early morning or in 

 the evening: in captivity they avoided, and appeared to dislike, the hot 

 sun. The natives assert that they eat snakes, which is unlikely. 

 Their stomachs were greatly distended with tamarisk usually. The 

 natives also extract from them an oil wliich is used for rheumatism and 

 as an aphrodisiac. It is said that the lizards sleep at the mouths of 

 their burrows, and that shikarris catch them by creeping up and break- 

 ing in the roof of the burrow with a large stone so as to block the 

 burrow from behind. 



Family Varanidse. 

 15. Vara7ius griseus ( Daud.) 



Varanus griseus, Bonlenger, Brifc. Mus. Cat. Lizards II. 306 : Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 99 : Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept., p. 163. Boettger, Zool. Jahrbach. 

 Syst. etc. III. 1888, p. 904. 



[ One, caught by a sepoy oq the Shorawuk plain, was placed, when 

 brought in, near some dead snakes, which it at once attacked, biting 

 one of them savagely. Its colour was brick-red with dark greenish- 

 black cross-bands. 



Another, 3 feet long, was caught under a bush near Robat I. It 

 made no attempt to escape, but attacked and bit my hunting-crop, 

 raising its head and body off the ground, puffing itself out and hissing 

 loudly. It had greyish-green cross-bands on the back, with irregularly 

 disposed pink scales between, and a pink tinge on the throat.] 



Family Lacertidse. 



16. Acanthodactylus cantoris, Gthr. 



Acanthodactylus cantoris, Bonlenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Lizards, III. 61 : Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 99 : Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept., p. IVO. Blauford, Zool. 

 E. Fers. II. p. 381, pi. xxvi. figs. 3, 3a-b. Werner, Verb, zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XLV. 

 1895, p. 16. 



Nineteen specimens. 



[Common west of Barabchah. In one specimen the back was 

 brown with a metallic sheen; in another, uniform brown, finely 

 grained.] 



17. Eremias giittulata, (Licht.) ■ 



Eremias guttulata, Bonlenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Lizards, III. 87 : Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 99 : Faun. Brit. Ind., Bept., p. 177 : P. Z. S. 1891, p. 630 : 

 T. Z. S. XIII. 1891, p. 132. Werner, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XL IV. 1894, p. 83 

 and XLV. 1895, p. !&. 



Nine specimens. 



