22 W. T. Blanford — On some Lizards from Sind. [No. 1, 



me in the hills west of the Shikarpur district. It is evidently a nocturnal 

 species and probably barrows in the sand. It does not appear to be com- 

 mon. It closely resembles a species which I described from Baluchistan 

 under the name of Bimopus tulerculatus* but that form wants the denticu- 

 lated fringe to the toes. A variety of B. tuberculatus has the colouration 

 of the present species. 



The other described forms of Stenodactylus are Africanf ; S. guttatus 

 being found in Egypt, S. Mauritanieus in Algeria, and S. garrulus in South 

 Africa. Another species has been described under the name of S. caudi- 

 cinctus (A. Dum, Arch, du Mus., VIII, PL XVIII, Fig. 15). This last, 

 however, is a very different form, being allied to JEublejjharis, and Dr. Gray 

 has proposed to make it the type of a distinct genus Psilodactylus (P. Z. 

 S., 1861, p. 60). S. orientalis is most nearly allied to S. guttatus, but it is 

 stouter and has the back tuberculated, and judging from the plate of 

 S. guttatus in the ' Description de l'E'gypte' (Supp., PL I, Fig. 3) the head 

 in the present species is smaller and the legs much longer, the toes too 

 appear to have a much shorter fringe. 



Fam. AGAMIDM. 

 7. Agama agilis. 



Olivier, Voy.Emp. Othm. Eg. et Perse, II, p. 418, PI XXIX, Fig. 1.— Dum. et 

 Bibr., Erp. Gen. IV, p. 496.— Gray, Cat. Lizards B. M. p. 257.— Blyth J. A. S. B. 

 1854, XXIII, p. 737.— Theobald, Cat. Kept. Mus. As. Soc. p. 38.— Anderson, P. Z. S., 

 1872, p. 384— W. Blanf., Zool. Persia, p. 314. 



? Trapelus, sp. Jerdon, P. A. S. B., 1870, p. 78. 



Trapelns megalonyx, Stoliczka, P. A. S. B., 1872, p. 88, nee Giinther. 



Very common in the hills to the west of the Indus valley, as it is in 

 Baluchistan. In the open plain outside the hills it is less frequently met 

 with. 



I have examined one of the specimens collected by Dr. Day in Sind, 

 and described by Dr. Stoliczka under the name of Trapelus megalonyx and 

 I have no doubt of its belonging to the present species. The appearance of 

 enlarged scales on the sides is, I think, to a great extent fallacious, and due ■ 

 to brighter colour. Certainly there are no scales enlarged to the extent 

 which is found in most species of Trapelus, and represented in Ford's figure 

 of T. megalonyx in Griinther's Beptiles. 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. June 1874, Vol. XIII, p. 454.— 'Zoology of 

 Persia', p. 348, PI. XXII, Fig. 4. 



f In the Catalogue Methodique des Reptiles du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de 

 Paris by C. Dumeril (1851) p. 47, specimens of S. guttatus are stated to have been 

 brought from Australia by MM. Quoy and Gaimard. The locality requires connrma- 

 tion. 



