20. PHRYNOCEPHALUS. 371 



feebly denticulated. Tibia longer than tlie skull. Tail round, 

 gradually tapering to a fine point, covered -with, smooth or slightly 

 keeled scales ; on the basal portion of the tail they are intermixed 

 ■with enlarged conical scales ; the length of the tail equals once and 

 two thirds to a little more than twice the distance from gular fold 

 to vent. Grey above, marbled with darker and guttate with lighter ; 

 sometimes a blackish cross band behind the scapular region, and 

 another in front of the sacral region ; sometimes a large zone on 

 the middle of the back uniform light grey ; limbs and tail with 

 blackish cross bars, on the latter forming annuli which are deep 

 black on the lower surface ; body and limbs interiorly white. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Head 11'5 „ 



Width of head 12 „ 



Body 31-5 „ 



Fore limb 27 „ 



Hind limb 39 „ 



Tail 62 „ 



Persia ; Baluchistan. 



a-d. 5 & hgr. Persia. Marquis G. Doria [P.J. 



e-g. 2 . Rajen, S.E. of Karman. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.1, 



h-k. cJ $ . Near Rigan, Narmashir, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C], 



S.E. Persia. 



I. S. Between Tehran and W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C], 



Kazvin. 



m-p. d ?• Ghistigan, Bampusht, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.], 



Baluchistan. 



q. (J. Near Bampur, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C] 



2. Phrynooephalus helioscopus. 



Phrynocephalus helioscopus, Gray, Cat. p. 260. 

 Lacerta helioscopa, Pall. Seise, i. p. 457. 



uraleusis, Cfmel. S. iV. p. 1073. 



Stellio helioscopa, Zatr. Kept. ii. p. 30. 



uralensis, Latr. I. e. p. 39. 



Acama helioscopa, Davd. Jt&pt. iii. p. 419 ; Licht. in Eversm. Seise, 



p. 144. 



uralensis, Baud. I. v. p. 423. 



Phrynocephalus uralensis, Fitz. N, Class. Sept. p. 47. 



helioscopus, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 144; Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. 



p. 186; Gravenh. N. Acta Ac. Zeo;3.-CaroZ. xvi. 1883, ii. p. 934, 



pi. Ixiv. figs. 9, 14 ; Eversm. N. M^m. Soc. Moscou, iii. 1834, p. 364, 



pi. xxxii. fig. 3 ; Bum. Sr Bibr. iv. p. 519. 

 persicus, Be Mlippi, Arch. p. la Zool. ii. p. 387, and Viagg. Pers. 



p. 353; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 388, fig.; Blanf. Zool. 



E. Pers. p. 329. 



Forehead convex, with enlarged convex scales; occipital scales 

 enlarged ; median supraorbital scales as large as, or rather smaller 

 than, the median dorsals ; nostril directed forwards ; nasal separated 

 from its fellow by three to five (exceptionally one) longitudinal 



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