1896.] A. A\cock & F.Finn— JfyJM7t-BalHrh Uejjtllia. .561 



5. The femoral pores, which in S. acutirostris are romarka])ly dis- 

 tiiicfc, are absent in the new species. 



Twenty-tive specimens. 



[Common west of Robat I. Colours in liFe : back brownisli yellow, 

 with lighter-coloured circular spots. Tails fragile. They ran very 

 fast, made for bushes, and entered holes. In general colouration they 

 resembled Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus.'] 



Family ScincidsB. 

 21. Ahlepharus hrandtii, Strauch. 



AUepharus hrandtii, Boulenger, Brit. Mns. Cat. Lizards, III. 351 : Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 100: Faun. Brit, Ind., Kept., p. 213 Boettger, Zool. 

 Jalirbuch., Syst., &c., III. 1888, p. 917. 



Blanford, Zool. E. Pers. II. p. 391, pi. xxvii. figs. 1, la. 



A single specimen. 



22. Ophiomorus tridactyhis (Blyth). 



Ophiomorus tridactylus, Boulenger, Brit, Mas. Cat, Lizards, III. 394, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, XII. 1887, p. 520 : Traus. Linn. Soc. Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 101 : Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Kept., p. 222, fig. 59, p. 221. 



Eighteen specimens. 



[Yery common wherever there is sand, but they are hard to catch, 

 as they dive below the surface at the first sign of danger, working into 

 the sand as a snake goes into a hole. They can only bo obtained by 

 following up the faint tracks that they leave on the surface of the sand, 

 and digging where the track comes to an end. They are said to be very 

 numerous round Chaman. They are in great request among the natives, 

 who fry them alive in a closed vessel and thus obtain from them a 

 burnt oil of nauseous appearance which is believed to be of great value 

 in impotence.] 



OPHIDIA. 

 Family Glauconiidse. 



23. Olauconia hlanfordi, Boulenger. 



Olauconia blanfordiy Boulenger, Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept., p. 2-13, fig. 72 : Brit. Mus. 

 Cat. Snakes, I, 66. 



[Two specimens found beneath a rock which was being lifted to 

 build the last boundary pillar, on the highest peak of the Koh-i-malik 

 Sial), 5000 feet, 16th April. They were of a pink colour in life, and 

 wriggled very actively.] 

 J. II, 72 



