140 DR. 3. ANDERSON ON REPTILES AND [May 21, 



respect from those obtained by Captain Nurse, nor from the 

 Hadramut type. 



Mr. Percival has added the accompanying note regarding this 

 Lizard, which, as is well known, is a vegetable-feeder. He says 

 it is much hunted by the Beduins, who eat it. 



[This fine lizard is fairly numerous in the hills of Southern 

 Arabia. It is a vegetable-feeder, and is much hunted by the 

 Beduins, who eat it. The specimens now in spirit in my collections 

 all contained small twigs and grass in stomach. The first specimen 

 was brought me at J. Manif cut to pieces by a spear. I impressed 

 upon the briuger that I did not want them in that state, and he 

 promised to get some more alive : next day he brought one alive 

 and in nice condition. Two days later at Jimil I got two more 

 specimens ; and on the last trip into the Abian country, to the east 

 of Aden, I got two more specimens, the live one I brought 

 home being one of them. It is a slow beast, and when seen is very 

 easily captured, unless, as happened to me, they get into a crack 

 in the rocks and so escape. There are, I think, one or two more 

 species, as the Beduins say that in Dethina there is a larger species 

 that is particularly good-eating. I did not try the lizard as an 

 article of food, much as some of the men wished me to. I was 

 told that they were particularly numerous along the sides of 

 W. Teramis, but I saw only one and that one escaped me into a 

 crack in rocks ; it was on the northern side. — A. B. P.] 



The larger species referred to by the natives as occurring at 

 Dethina may probably prove to be U. ornatus. 



The figure here given of this beautiful lizard is taken from the 

 living specimen brought home by Mr. Percival. 



Varanid.e. 



9. Yaraxus griseus Daud. 



[Native name "AVaral."' I saw only one specimen of this fine 

 Lizard. They are not uncommon, as we often saw their spoor. 

 Seem to live in same holes as the large Jerboa Bats (Tuft-tail 

 Eats).— A. B.P.] 



AMEHIgB.XHXD.2E. 



10. Agamodon arabicus, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 2.) 



Body much compressed, its transverse breadth at the middle 

 being little more than one-half of its depth, whilst before the 

 vent it is less than half of the depth. Head very short, higher 

 than broad. Rostral considerably broader than long, triangular ; 

 the apex or labial border curved downwards and slightly back- 

 wards and nearly half the breadth of the base of the shield. Frontal 

 more or less concave from side to side, the lateral margins of this 

 shield, as well as of the rostral, projecting and raised above the 

 shields on the sides of the head. Nostril elongated, parallel to the 



