1896.] A. Alcock & F. Finn— Afyhcm-Baluch lleptllia. 56 L 



5. The femoral pores, which in 8. aeutirostris are remarkably dis- 

 tinct;, are absent in the new species. 



Twenty-five specimens. 



[Common west of Robat I. Colours in life : back brownish yellow, 

 with lighter-coloured circular spots. Tails fragile. They ran very 

 fast, made for bushes, and entered holes. In general colouration they 

 resembled Phrynocephalus hiteoguttatus.'] 



Family Scincidse. 

 21. Ablepharus brandtii, Strauch. 



Ablepharus brandtii, Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Lizards, III. 351 : Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. Zool. (iij V. 1889, p. 100: Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept., p. 213. Boettger, Zool. 

 Jahrbuch., Syst., &c, III. 1888, p. 917. 



Blanford, Zool. B. Pers. II. p. 391, pi. xxvii. figs. 1, la. 



A single specimen. 



22. Ophiomorus tridactylus (Blyth). 



Ophiomorus tridactylus, Bonlenger, Brit. Mns. Cat, Lizards, III. 394, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, XII. 1887, p. 520 : Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. (ii) V. 1889, p. 101 : Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Kept., p. 222, fig. 59, p. 221. 



Eighteen specimens. 



[Very common wherever there is sand, but they are hard to catch, 

 as they dive below the surface at the first sign of danger, working into 

 the sand as a snake goes into a hole. They can only be obtained by 

 following up the faint tracks that they leave on the surface of the sand, 

 and digging where the track comes to an end. They are said to be very 

 numerous round Chaman. They are in great request among the natives, 

 who fry them alive in a closed vessel and thus obtain from them a 

 burnt oil of nauseous appearance which is believed to be of great value 

 in impotence.] 



OPHLDIA. 

 Family Glauconiidse. 



23. Glauconia blanfordi, Boulenger. 



Glauconia blanfordi, Boulenger, Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept., p. 243, fig. 72 : Brifc. Mus. 

 Cat. Snakes, I. 66. 



[Two specimens found beneath a rock which was being lifted to 

 build the last boundary pillar, on the highest peak of the Koh-i-malik 

 Siab, 5000 feet, 16th April. They were of a pink colour in life, and 

 wriggled very actively.] 

 J. ii. 72 



