19. ASAMA. 343 



r. Yg. Mand, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.1. 



s.Yg. Sind. W.T. Blanford, Esq. rC". 



t. Yg. Sind. W. T. Blanford, Esq. tO.]. 



u. Hgr. Alpine Punjab. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.J. 



7. Agama sanguinolenta. 



Tjapelus ? sanguinolentus, Grat/, Cat. p. 259. 

 Lacerta sanguinolenta, Pall Zoogr. Moss.-As. iii. p. 2-3. 

 Agama aralensis, Lichstenst. in Evenm. Meise, p. 144, and Verz. 



Doubl. Mils. Berl. p. 101 ; Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 185. 



oxiana, Eichw. I. o. 



Trapelus aralensis, Eversm. Nmiv. Mim. Ac. Mosc, iii. p. 366. 



sanguinolentus, Eichw. Faun. Casp. Cauc. p. 89, pi. xiv. iigs. 3, 4. 



Podorrlioa (Trapeloidis) sanguinolenta, JVfe. Syst. Eept. p. 81. 

 Agama sanguinolenta, A. Hum. Vat. Meth, jiept. p. 102, and Arch. 



Mus. viii. p. 576 ; Schreib. Htrp. Eur. p. 466. 

 agUis, part., Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 674. 



Head moderate, convex, subcordiform. Nostril not tubular, 

 lateral, pierced just below the cantbus rostralis in the posterior 

 part of a flat nasal. Upper head-scales convex ; occipital not en- 

 larged ; a few spine-like scales on the pos1>temporal region ; ear- 

 opening as large as the eye-opening, partly concealed by a strong 

 fringe of spinose scales superiorly ; males with a very small gular 

 pouch. Body roundish, moderately depressed, covered above with 

 equal, rhomboidal, imbricate, very strongly keeled scales, ending in 

 a strong, spinose, raised mucro ; lateral and ventral scales much 

 smaller, distinctly keeled. Limbs moderate ; tibia nearly as long as 

 the skull (to occiput) ; third finger a little shorter than fourth, 

 fifth not extending as far as second ; third toe much shorter than 

 fourth, fifth not extending quite as far as first. Tail a little more 

 than twice as long as the distance from gular fold to vent, rounded, 

 covered with strongly keeled scales. Males with a double or triple 

 row of anal pores. Pale olive or sandy above, with or without 

 darker transverse bars interrupted by a light vertebral spot ; lower 

 surfaces paler, the throat dark blue in the breeding male. 



Total length 282 millim. 



Head 29 „ 



Width of head 25 „ 



Body 83 „ 



Fore limb 46 „ 



Hind limb 72 „ 



Tail 170 „ 



Borders of the Caspian Sea ; Central Asia ; Turkestan. 



a, ^ . Mangyschlak. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 



h. cj'. West'Goloduaja. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 



c,d.<S. Syr Darya. ' M. Severzow [0,]. 



