348 AGAMID^. 



14. Agama ruderata. 



Agama ruderata, Olivier, Voy. Emp. Ottom. ii. p. 429, pi. xzix. fig. 3. 



loricata, Heuss, Mus. Senckenb. p. 40. 



mutabilis, part., Dum. Sf Bibr. iv. p. 505. 



Eremioplanis ruderata, Fitzing. St/si. Mept. p. 82. 

 Agama lessonfe, De Filippi, Viag. Pers. p. 353. 

 Trapelus ruderatus, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 384 ; Blanf. E. 

 Persia, p. 315 ; Murray, Zool. 8ind, p. 370. 



Head short and very convex. Nostril not tubular, lateral, pierced 

 in the posterior part of a small nasal just below the canthus rostralis. 

 Upper head-scales keeled or striated ; occipital not enlarged ; no 

 regular spines on the back of the head ; a small denticulation partly 

 covering the ear, which, is smaller than the eye-opening. Males 

 without gular pouch. Body short, depressed, covered above with 

 small, irregular, more or less distinctly keeled, imbricate scales, inter- 

 mixed with scattered large, nail- like, pointed keeled scales ; ventral 

 scales smooth. Limbs moderate, with heterogeneous scales ; tibia 

 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. Tail once and a half to twice as long as the distance 

 from gular fold to vent, rounded, with strongly keeled scales inter- 

 mixed with enlarged ones at the base. Males with a double row of 

 anal pores. Greyish or sandy-coloured above, variegated with 

 darker or with dark spots arranged in pairs along the back ; tail 

 with dark cross bars ; lower surfaces whitish, the male's throat 

 variegated with bluish grey. 



Total length 167 millim. 



Head 19 



Width of head 17 



Body 60 



Pore limb 35 



Hind Umb 51 



TaU 88 



Syria to Sind. 



a-b. S $ . Shiraz. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



c. tJ. Road to Euphrates. C. Gr. Danford, Esq. [P.]. 



d. 5 • Between Baalbeck and Shtora. Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



15. Agama pallida. 



Trapelus ruderatus, (non Oliv.) Gray, Cat. p. 258. 

 Agama ruderata, (non Oliv ) Aud. Descr. Egypte, Rept. Suppl. p. 169, 

 pi. i. fig. 6. 



pallida. Perns, Mus. Senckenb. p. 38, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



nigrofaaciata, Meuss, I. c. p. 42. 



— — mutabilis, part., Dum. Sr Bibr. iv. p. 505. 

 Trapelus aegyptius, Duvern. R. A., Rept. pi. xiv. fig. 2. 

 ■ mutabilis, {non Merr.) Blanf. E. Persia, p. 316. 



Head short, thick, very convex. Nostril not tubular, superior, 



