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Qymnodactylus scaler, Heyden ; Semidactylus granosus,'H.ej&6ia., 

 = Semidaotylus turcicus, Linn. ; Bufo arabicus, Heyden, =5z</b 

 viridis, Laur. 



Dr. A. Eeuss, in 1834, characterized a number of reptiles from 

 Arabia collected by Eiippell, principally on his second expediiion. 

 Oae, however, was obtained on his first journey, and is stated to 

 have been found at Tor, Arabia Petrsea, a locality I have not 

 been able to identify, unless it be Tor, on the sea-coast of the 

 Sinaitic Peninsula. This species, viz. Lacerta longieaudata^= 

 Latastia longicaudata^, was afterwards found by Eiippell in 

 Abyssinia, where it appears to be common, as it is likewise at 

 Suakin, ia the neighbourhood of which I obtained many speci- 

 mens. Eeuss also enumerates the following species aa Arabian : — 

 Agama loricata'^^^A. pallida, Eeuss"; Coluber lacrymans= 

 Psammophis schohari, EorskSl ; and Coluber moilensis=^ Caelopeltis 

 moilensis, Eeuss. 



Eiippell himself, in 1835, described Trapelus flavimaeulaius= 

 Agama flammaculata, from Jiddah, to which locality Dumeril 

 and Bibron erroneously ascribed Agama cyanogaster, Eiippell, 

 which was first discovered at Massowah. 



In the fourth volume (1837) of Dumeril and Bibron's work, 

 Agama flavimaculata, Eiippell', is wrongly regarded as a 

 synonym of A. agilis, Olivier *, and consequently Jiddah is given 

 as a locality for the latter species. 



In 1837, Wiegmaun described Scincus meccensis from Mecca ; 

 and, in 1839, Dr. J. E. Gray referred a lizard collected by 

 Eiippell in Arabia Petreea to the genus Riopa, but now generally 

 recognized to be Ablepharus pannonicus, Pitz. 



In Eiippell's Catalogue of the Eeptiles in the Prankfort 

 Museum, a specimen of Stenodactylus guttatus, Cuv., =;8'. elegans, 

 Pitz., is mentioned from Arabia. 



Dumeril and Bibron, in their sixth volume (1844), record 

 Typhlops vermicularis, Merr., from the foot of Sinai, on the 

 strength of specimens from that locality in the Leyden Museum, 

 and also note the presence of Hryx jaculus, Hasselq. & Linn., 

 in Arabia, but do not state the source of their information 

 regarding the latter. 



' Prof. 0. Boettger (Kat. Eept. Frankfort Mus. 1893, p. 89) records this 

 species only from Arabia, but besides the type from Tor there are Eiippell's 

 three Abyssinian specimens. 



^ Type in the Frankfort Museum examined. 



' Type examined. ' Types examined. 



