1896.] A. Alcock & F. Finn — Afghan-BalucK Reptilia. 559 



[Found the whole way from Nushki to the Persian border. They 

 ran fast from bush to bush, and entered holes. The brownish colour 

 they had when fresh has faded in spirit.] 



18. Eremias velox (Pall.) 



Eremias velox, Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Liznrds III. 97: Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 99: Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept., p. 178. Boettger, Zool. Jahrbuch., 

 Syst. etc., III. 1888, p. 910. Werner, Verh, zool. bot. Ges. Wien. XLV. 1895, p. 16. 



Eremias persica, Blanford, Zool. B. Pers. II. p. 370, pi. xxvi. figs. 1, la. 



Eleven specimens, 



[The majority were caught at Panjpai, not far from Quetta. These 

 ran very sluggishly, and made for bushes.] 



19. Scaptira scripta, (Strauch.) 



Scaptira scripta, Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Lizards, III. 112. Boettger, Zool, 

 Jahrbuch., Syst., etc., III. 1888, p. 914. 



Three specimens. 



[ One, obtained by Captain McMahon on the sand hills between 

 Soru and Darband, 3500 feet, had a minute black mosaic pattern over 

 the back : the abdomen was white : the upper surface of the limbs was 

 black with small round yellow spots.] 



20. Scaptira aporosceles, n. sp. Plate XIII. 



Snout conical, acutely pointed ; loreal region nearly vertical. 

 Nasals slightly swollen, lower not reaching the rostral, but approaching 

 it closely ; upper forming a long median suture. Frontal strongly 

 grooved throughout, the groove continued along the vertex of the snout 

 to the anterior end of the fronto-nasal ; three large supra-oculars, form- 

 ing sutures with each other, the first in contact with the first supraci- 

 liary, the second loreal, the praefrontal, and generally the frontal ; the 

 second and third completely surrounded by a series of granules, separat- 

 ing them from the supraciliaries, the fronto-parietals, the frontal, the 

 first supra-ocular, and the small band-like posterior supra-ocular ; one of 

 these granules commonly develops into a small shield separating more 

 or less completely the first supra-ocular from the frontal. Interparietal 

 lozenge-shaped ; no occipital ; parietals forming a suture behind the 

 interparietal ; no enlarged scales on the outer border of the parietals ; 

 temporal scales granular, smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; subocnlar 

 not reaching the lip, resting usually on the sixth, seventh and eighth, 

 or fifth, sixth, and seventh, upper labials; the first two pairs of chin- 

 shields and generally the third pair also, in contact. 



