„ Feizabad - Mondechi, E. Persia 



(type of E. nigrocellata) . 66 61 18 32 10 29 13 21 7 



Habitat. — The types are from the Aralo-Caspian Desert, but this 

 species is also known to occur in Transcaspia, Turkestan (near 

 L. Balkash), and Northern and Eastern Persia (Astrabad, Seistan, 

 Feizabad-Mondechi) . 



E. intermedia connects E. muUiocellata with E. arguta. 



33. EEEMIAS AEGUS. 



Eremias argus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61, pi. — , fig. 3; 

 Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixii, i, 1870, p. 336, pi. ii, figs. 1, 2; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 102 (1887) ; Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 

 1888, p. 63; Werner, Abb. Bayer. Ak. xxii, 1904, p. 354; Nikolsky, 

 Herp. Eoss. p. 167 (1905) ; Elpatjewsky & Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., 

 Syst. xxiv, 1906, p. 253 ; Stejneg. Herp. Japan, p. 248, figs. (1907) ; 

 Bedriaga, Wiss. Ees. Przewalski Eeis., Amph. Eept. p. 636 (1912) ; 

 Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 8. 



Eremias brenchleyi, Griinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) ix, 1872, p. 419, 

 and in Brenohley, " Cura9oa," p. 306, pi. xxii, fig. a (1873) ; J. G-. 

 Pischei-, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. v, 1888, p. 46, pi. iv, fig. 9 ; 

 Mehely, in Zichy, Zool. Ergebn. 3. Asiat. Porschungsr. ii, p. 56 

 (1901) ; Elpatjewsky & Sabanejev, t.c. p. 252 ; Bedriaga, op. cit. 

 p. 648. 



Podarces {Eremias) argus, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Eept. p. 32 

 (1876). 



Podarces (Eremias) brenchleyi, Strauch, op. cit. j). 30. 



Eremias argus, var. brenchleiji, Boettg. I.e. ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. 

 Ees. iii, 1918, p. 10. 



Body feebly depressed. Head convex, not much broader than 

 deep, Ii to II times as long as broad, its length 3J to 4J times 



