1872.] Stoliczlm, on Sind Beptiles. 87 



General colour, above, olive, with a slight brown tinge ; head with some 

 indistinct blackish marks ; back with four alternating series of white spots, 

 accompanied by blackish spots, the outer series on the edge of back being in 

 both cases the better developed one ; sides with one or two series of pale 

 spots margined with blackish ; both the white and dark series of spots have 

 the inclination of forming continuous bands ; hinder side of thigh with a 

 blackish stripe, and the tail with irregular dark marks ; the entire lower side 

 uniform whitish with a greenish tinge. 



Total length of a perfect specimen 6*5 inches, the body being 2*1 inches. 

 In the largest specimen the body is nearly 2*5 inches long, and the head 0*6 

 inch. The fore-limb, when laid forward, reaches midway between the eye 

 and nostril, very rarely as far as the latter ; and the hind-limb reaches the 

 shoulder-fold, or half way between it and the ear. The toes on the fore-limb 

 -are rather short, but those of the hind-limb long and slender ; on both they 

 are sharply keeled below, I have examined five specimens of this interesting 

 form, all are similarly coloured. 



The species belongs to the section of Eremias with the gular fold attach- 

 ed in the middle of the throat, and with one large preanal shield ; this group 

 has been designated Mesalina by Gray, but I hardly think that the charac- 

 ters are of such importance as would necessitate a generic separation ; they 

 are certainly variable in the different species of JEremias. 



Externally, as regards structure, the present species only differs from 

 Gymnops^ by the presence of lower eyelids, and from Cahrita by the small, 

 granualar, smooth scales. It is the first Indian species of Eremias known, 

 and belongs to the desert fauna of the Panjab Province. In coloration it 

 closely resembles the Chinese E. myus,-f Petars, but it is a more slender 

 form, and shews a somewhat different arrangement in the head shields. 



4. ErBLEPHAETJS MACULAEIUS, (Blyth). 

 Anderson in Proc. Z. S., 1871, p. 163. "^^ 



General coloration of adult pinkish yellow ; a dark violet band on the 

 neck, more or less extending on the head, two on the body, and a smaller one 

 on sacral region ; the whole of the upper side of the head and body marked 

 besides with irregular blackish brown spots or marblings ; tail similarly 

 marbled, (reproduced, short, very stumpy, and not verticillate in tlie only 

 specimen) ; sides of head and limbs above with smaller and fewer dark spots ; 

 below, uniform yellowish white. 



This is, Dr. Day informs me, rather rare in Sind. He met with it only 

 in one house at Shikarpur. It is, he says, very fond of residing under a 

 tatty that is kept wet during the hot weather. It is called Ilun-kun, or 



* Compare antea, p. 74 



f See Steindachner in Sitzungsb. Akad. M. N. Klasse, Wien, Ixii, 1870, p. 336 ; 

 and also Zootoca chalyhdea, Eichwaldj Fauna Casp., pi. xi, figs, 1 — 3. 



