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In A. Dumdril's Catalogue of the Eeptilos in the Paris Museum 

 (1851), Agama cyanog aster, Eiippell, Huprepes septemtceniatus, 

 Eeuss,=JfajMja! septemtcBniata, Eeuss, and Qongylus ocellatus, 

 PorskSl,= Ghalcides {Gtongylus) ocellatus, ForskSl, are represented 

 by Arabian specimens. 



In the seventh volume of the ' Erpetologie Getierale ' (1854), 

 PsammopMs punctulatus, D. & B., is described from Arabia, vrhence 

 it had been obtained by M. Arnaud, who travelled as a collector 

 for the Paris Museum. 



In 1863, Dr. J. E. Q-ray described Spatalura carteri=Pris- 

 turus earteri, a rock-gecko found by Mr. H. J. Carter on the 

 island of Masira, and mentioned the existence at Makallah of 

 a TJromastix which he was unable to identify. In the following 

 year he described a chameleon from Arabia, 0. auratus=G. vul- 

 garis, Daud. 



Professor Peters, in the following year, recorded Ghalcides 

 {Sphcenopi) sepoides, And., from Tor, Arabia, under the name of 

 Sphisnops capistratus, "Wagler. 



Strauch, in his Monograph of the Viperidse (1869), mentioned 

 that a specimen of Cerastes cornutus, H. & L., from Arabah, Arabia 

 Petraea, was preserved in the Munich Museum ; a:id in the same 

 year Westphal-Castlenau gave Arabia as one of the localities in 

 which E. pardalis, D. & 'B.,=Eremias guttulata, Licht.,was found. 



In 1871, Peters described Pristurus longipes=Pristurus 

 crucifer,Yal.,irom Aden ; and in that year I characterized a skink, 

 Scincus mitranus, from Arabia, allied to S. officinalis, Schn. 



In 1874, Mr. Blanford gave an account of a new gecko from 

 Maskat, Pristurus rupestris, and recorded Pristurus flavi- 

 punctatus, Eiippell, from the same locality. 



Captain, afterwards Sir Eichard, Burton presented, in 1878, to 

 the British Museum a small collection of reptiles that he had 

 brought together in Midian. The species were described and 

 identified by Dr. G-iinther, who recognized two as new to science, 

 viz. Zamenis elegantissimus and JSJchis coloratus ^ ; while the fol- 

 lowing were new to the Arabian fauna: — Zamenis clifordi=- 

 Z. t^zai^emfli, Sehlegel ; Zamenis ventrimaculatus'=Z. rhodorhacMs, 

 Jan ; HcMs carinatus, Schn. ; Geramodactylus dorice, Blanford, 

 = Stenodactylus (C.) dorice, Blanf. ; Uromastix spinipes, Merrem, =: 

 C. cegyptius, Hasselquist & Linn. ; Acanthodactylus hosManus, 

 Daud. ; Acanthodactylus cantoris, Giiather,=^. hoskianus, Daud. ; 

 and Bufo pantherinus, Boie,=5. regularis, Eeuss, 

 ' Eeoorded from the island of Socotra by Dr. Giinther, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 463. 



