1901.] BATBACHIA^S FftOM ARABIA. 147 



This lizard and the specifically identical Ewprepes pyrrhocepTmlus 



"Wiegm. have been figured in the recently published work entitled 

 • Symbols; Physicse, seu Icones adhuc ineditae &c.,' of Hemprieh & 

 Ehrenberg, Zool. i. Amph. pi. v. figs. 1 & 2. 



The large female, the mother of the young ones, is completely 

 devoid of white spots. The dark longitudinal lines are only feebly 

 indicated, but the small dark brown spots by which they are marked 

 are very distinct. The white lateral band is more or less distinct. 

 The specimen JXo. 2 has much the same characters, but there are 

 here and there faint traces of white spots. In the large female 

 No. 1 the dark lines and dark brown spots are present, and white 

 spots on the anterior part of the body. In the adult male the 

 general colour is pale brown, each scale having a dark brown 

 margin. A few white spots occur on the sides of the body. The 

 pale lateral band is present, and below it is a broadish dark band 

 extending back from the eye to the hind limb, blackish on the sides 

 of the head and neck, but becoming pale brown behind the axilla. 

 The sides of the body below the band are of a pale livid tint ex- 

 tending on to the throat, which is dark-spotted ; white spots on 

 the upper and lower labials. 



The young is marked dorsally by two broad, very pale brown 

 bands defined by a mesial and by a very narrow pale whitish band 

 externally. These three lines converge on the base of the tail. 

 There are six longitudinal lines, each consisting of 18 well-defined 

 black spots from the head to the interfemoral region, but beyond 

 that they are prolonged on to the tail. There are two transverse 

 sets of spots to each of the broad brownish areas, and another 

 somewhat more transversely elongated set of black spots along the 

 side on a somewhat pale brownish lateral band from the eye to 

 the hind limb, the sides of the body below it being also black- 

 spotted. The upper surface of the fore limbs is pale brownish with 

 obscure whitish spots, whereas the corresponding aspect of the 

 hind limb is markedly black-and-white spotted. Underparts pure 

 white. The mesial white longitudinal dorsal line disappears in the 

 adult, but the white lateral line of each side is more or less per- 

 sistent throughout life. In none of the very young which I have 

 examined are white spots associated with the dark spots as occur 

 in some adults. Young lizards with the foregoing coloration corre- 

 spond to M. pulchra Matschie. 



In two of the foetuses the male generative organs are extruded. 



17. Sonrcxra bempbichii "Wiegm. 



1 6 • Bbaikh Othman. 



] 3 . Lahej and south to Shaikh Otlunan. 



This lizard has been recently figured in the pari <>l the ' Symbols 

 Physicae' entitled " Icones adhuc inedita: &c," lbi)9, Zool. i. Amph. 

 pi. iv. figs. 1 & 1 a. 



The Aden specimen described by me in L806 differed from 

 the tvpe preserved in the Berlin Museum and fr Professor 



