1S76.] W. T. Blanford — On some Lizards from Sind. 23 



The only other Trap elm recorded from the British possessions in India 

 is one which Dr. Jerdon mentioned his having obtained from the Alpine 

 Pan jab (P. A. S. B., 1870, p. 78). No specific name was applied to this 

 form, in the description of which I find nothing to distinguish it from 

 Agama agilis. The fore-leg is said not to reach the hip joint, as it 

 usually does in this species, but I find that it occasionally falls a little 

 short. 



This species was obtained by Mr. Theobald in the Salt range of the 

 Panjab and I find a specimen in the Indian Museum of which the record of 

 the locality has been lost, but which was presented by Mr. Theobald, and is, 

 I think, probably the specimen mentioned in his catalogue and determined 

 by Mr. Blyth. 



8. Teapeltts rtjbbigulaeis, sp. nov. 



T. affinis T. ruderato, sed sqttamis omnibus Icevioribus, meatu auditorio 

 majori, vix superne denticulate, poris prceanalibus paucis atque in seriem 

 unicam ordinatis, coloreque distinguendus ; supra olivaceofuscus vel griseus, 

 albido guttulatus, maculis nonnullis fuscis distant ibus in lineam longitu- 

 dinalem utrinq_ue ad dorsum notatus, caudd superne fuscotransfasciatd, 

 macula rubra (post mortem apud exempla in spiritu vini conservata evanes- 

 cente) sub guld signatus. 



Hab. — In Sind. 



Description. — General form very much like that of Trapelus ruderatus 

 from Persia.* The head is short and depressed, so much so in young speci- 

 mens that they have exactly the appearance of Phrynocepliali, body much 

 depressed, tail depressed at the base, then very gradually diminishing and 

 terminating in rather a blunt point ; no nuchal crest ; a cross fold on the 

 throat. The fore-leg in adults when laid back does not reach the thigh, the 

 hind-leg laid forward comes to the shoulder, in young specimens to the ear. 

 Length of the largest specimen collected nearly 7 inches, head 1, tail from 

 anus 3 - 8, fore-limb to end of toes T35, fourth toe without the claw (from 

 the division between 3rd and 4th toes) 022, hind limb 2, fourth toe 0'37. 



Scales on upper surface of the head bluntly keeled, irregular in size, 

 those in the middle of the occiput and forehead being rather larger than the 

 rest. Superciliary ridge prominent ; cantlms rostralis rounded ; nostrils 

 directed upward and backward, each in the middle of a single shield on the 

 anterior portion of the snout ; the nasals near each other, being separat- 

 ed by about three scales from each other and usually by two from the ros- 



* I have already pointed out (Zool. Persia, p. 316) that the Persian form is the 

 true Agama ruderata of Olivier and that the Egyptian lizard, although closely allied, 

 appears to be fairly separable, in which case the latter will stand as T. mutabilis, Morroin. 



