14. EREMTAs, 89 
r. 9. Karman, 8.E. Persia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
8. 2. Rayin, south-west of W. T. Blanford, Esq. fet 
arman. 
t-u. Her. Dasht River, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
v, es 3, hgr., Gwadar, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. fet 
ye: 
zd. Helmand River. Dr. Aitchison [C.]. 
Afghan Boundary Comm, 
a. 2. Between Quetta and Dr. Aitchison (C.]. 
Nushki. Afghan Boundary Comm. 
B. &. Tirphul. Dr. Aitchison [C. }. 
Afghan Boundary Comm. 
y-5. Q. Sind. 
7. Eremias brevirostris. 
Eremias watsonanus, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 125 
(nec ante, p. 86). 
Mesalina brevirostris, Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 879. 
Very closely allied to #. guttulata. Snout shorter, nasals strongly 
swollen ; interparietal not in contact with the occipital, which is 
minute. Ventrals in twelve longitudinal series, only the two 
median distinctly broader than long. 
Tumb Island, Persian Gulf; Punjab. 
a, Her. Tumb Island. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. T 
b. g. Kalabagh, Punjab. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. (Types) 
8. Eremias rubropunctata. 
Mesalina rubropunctata, Gray, Cat. p. 43. 
Lacerta rubropunctata, Lichtenst. Verz. Doubl. Mus, Berl. p. 100%. 
Scapteira nebulosa, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 281. 
Mesalina lichtensteinii, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 282. 
Eremias rubropunctata, Dum. & Bibr. y. p. 297; Smith, Il. 8. Afr., 
Rept. pl. xlviii. fig. 9. 
Snout rather pointed. Nasals strongly swollen ; frontonasal in 
contact with the rostral; two prefrontals; frontal very feebly 
grooved; two large supraoculars, second separated from the supra- 
ciliaries by two or three series of granules ; one or two scales on a 
line from the loreal to the anterior supraocular; interparietal 
pentagonal, in contact with an occipital ; temporal scales granular, 
smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid with a semitrans- 
parent disk formed of several scales; subocular bordering the lip, 
normally between the fourth and fifth upper labials; the three 
anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. A rather indistinct trans- 
verse gular fold, connecting the ears; collar angular, attached 
mesially. Dorsal scales round, convex, smooth, juxtaposed, 60 to 
65 across the middle of the body. Ventral plates in straight lon- 
gitudinal and angular transverse series, not or scarcely broader 
* Types (Berlin Mus., 1113-1116, 1127) examined. 
