14, BheMqas. 87 
Abyssinia, Somaliland, Arabia. 
a. Anseba valley, Abyssinia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
(Type of Acanthodactylus mucronatus.) 
bo. ‘Walker’s Torrent, Abyssinia. W. Jesse, Esq. [C.]. 
a 3. Mt. Sinai. 
5. Eremias pardaloides. 
Mesalina pardaloides, Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 881. 
Agrees in every respect with ZF. guttulata, except in having only 
eight longitudinal rows of ventral plates instead of ten, the outer 
row consisting of very, small plates. The hind limb reaches the 
ear. 
Henjam Island, Persian Gulf. 
6. Eremias guttulata. 
Eremias guttulata, Gray, Cat. p. 41. 
Mesalina pardalis, Gray, J. c. p. 43. 
Lacerta guttulata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 101 *. 
- eae, part., dud. Deser. Egypte, Rept., Suppl. p. 175, pl. ii. 
gs. 1, 2. 
a olivieri, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc, Nat. xvi. 1829, pp. 18, 84, pl. vi. 
5. 
Beate punctulata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1888, p. 281. 
Eremias guttulata, Dum. § Bibr. v. p.810; Smith, Ill. 8. Afr., Rept. 
pl. xlvin. fig. 8; Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 88; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 
1880, p. 308. 
—— pardalis, Dum. § Bibr. p. 312; Smith, 1. ¢. fig. 18; Guichen. 
Explor, Alg., Rept. p. 15, pl. i. fig. 2; Strauch, 1. ¢. p. 809. 
—— (Mesalina) watsonana, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 
p. 86; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 349. 
Mesalina pardalis, Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 877; Murray, 1. c. 
. 850. 
Aes guttulata, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc, Beng. xlviii. 1879, p. 127. 
Podarces (Mesalina) simoni, Boetty. Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 571, and 
Abh, Senck, Ges, xiii. 1883, p. 116, pl. i. fig. 3*. 
Eremias (Mesalina) balfouri, Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 467. 
In habit very similar to Lacerta murals. Snout rather pointed. 
Nasals more or less swollen; frontonasal separated from the rostral 
by the upper nasals ; two prefrontals ; frontal feebly grooved ; four | 
supraoculars, first and fourth very small, sometimes broken up, the 
first in contact with the loreal; a series of granules between the 
two principal supraoculars and the supraciliaries; interparietal 
pentagonal, in contact with a small occipital; temporal scales 
granular, smooth; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid with 
a more or less transparent disk formed usually of two, not un- 
frequently of several, seldom of one, scales; subocular bordering 
the lip, normally between the fourth and fifth upper labials; the 
* Types examined. 
