28. UROMASTIX. 409 



d. d. Sind. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



e. $. Kurrachee. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [0.1. 

 /■ 6 ■ N. India. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [C.J. 

 g, h. Ad., stuffed. India. 



i. Yg. S.E. coast of Arabia (?). H. J. Carter, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Uromastix asmussii. 



Centrotrachelus asmussi, Strauchf Bull. Ac. St. PHersh. vi. 1863, 

 p. 479 ; Blanf. E. Persia, p. 337, pi. xxi. 



Anterior border of ear very slightly denticulated. Back of head 

 and neck with spinose tubercles. Scales of back small, rhomboidal, 

 subimbricate, intermixed with enlarged subconical tubercles with 

 the points directed backwards, forming equidistant interrupted 

 transverse series ; ventral scales rather large, there being about 

 twenty transverse rows on the middle of the belly on a space 

 corresponding to the length of the head. Six or seven femoral and 

 two or three prseanal pores on each side. Tail feebly depressed, 

 above with transverse series of large spinose conical tubercles, the 

 series separated from one another by several rows of small scales ; 

 inferiorly with small scales also forming transverse series, there being 

 three or four series in one annulus. Head, limbs, and tail blackish 

 above, body buff, the larger tubercles scarlet in life ; sometimes 

 uniform yellowish olivaceous ; belly yellowish ; throat, chest, and 

 lower sxirface of limbs marbled with black. 



Total length 460 millim. 



Head 45 „ 



Width of head 42 „ 



Body 205 „ 



Fore limb 90 „ 



Hind limb 130 „ 



Tail 210 „ 



Eastern Persia ; Baluchistan. 



a. S- Near Rigan, Narmashir, S.E. W. T. Blanford, Esq. fC.]. 



Persia. 



7. Uromastix loricatus. (Plate XXXIT.) 



Centrotrachelus loricatus, Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 660, and 

 E. Persia, p. 840, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 677. 



Closely allied to the preceding ; differing in the following points : — 

 No trace of a denticulation in front of the ear. Scales smaller, 

 the enlarged tubercles not forming so regular transverse series; 

 thirty to forty transverse rows of scales on the middle of the belly 

 on a space corresponding to the length of the head. Twelve or 

 thirteen femoral and three or four prseanal pores on each side. 

 Yellowish grey or cream-colour above, with small brown spots, 

 sometimes with transverse series of round yellow brown-edged 

 spots ; lower surfaces yellowish white. 



