1879.] W. T. Blanford— Notes on Reptilia. 129 
the hind limb just reaches the axil, the tympanum is covered with one or 
two large scales instead of being quite naked, and the nostrils are not direct 
ed upwards. If the last character were certain, there could be no doubt 
about the specific distinction of the species, but one nostril has a distorted 
look, and there is an opening from one nostril to the other through the 
septum, so that it is possible to see through both nostrils. Now the speci- 
men haying been obtained by an ornithologist, I think it has been carried, 
when freshly killed, suspended to a stick with a pin thrust through the 
nostrils—the common plan employed for carrying birds by collectors—and 
I am not sure how far the nostrils have been distorted by the process. 
The other differences are less important ; in forms like D. maculatus with 
the tympanum scaly, the area is covered with small scales ; and in those with 
a naked tympanum, part of the space is often occupied by a large flat 
scale. 
The membrane of the ‘ wings’ is dark-coloured, rather darker towards 
the margin than inside, with small spots formed of larger white scales. 
These spots are not arranged in as distinct rows as in typical D. major. 
Otherwise the coloration is the same in both. The length is 12 inches, 
of which the tail measures 8. 
This may be a new species and I therefore eall attention to it. I am 
much inclined, however, to believe it is a variety of D. major with the 
nostrils distorted. 
STELLIO TUBERCULATA. 
As might have been anticipated, this proves to be, in part, a vegetable 
feeder, like allied species. Mr. Wynne noticed some lizards feeding on 
leaves at Murree, and sent me a skin of this species and some of the con- 
tents of the stomach, which proved to be a mixture of fragments, partly of 
insects, partly of vegetables. 
AGAMA AGILIS. 
Dr. Peters writes to me that this species is Agama sanguinolenta of 
Pallas, and must take Pallas’s name. It is also, Dr. Peters says, A. 
aralensis of Lichtenstein ; the true A. agilis of Ollivier being a form allied 
to A. (Trapelus) ruderata. Tam unable to examine into this question at 
present as I have not now access to Ollivier’s work. 
I found the lizard hitherto called A. agilis by myself and others (see 
Eastern Persia, II, p. 314 and J. A. S. B., 1876, pt. 2, p.22) abundant near 
Jaisulmir in the sandy desert to the east of the Indus. I once or twice saw 
this species on low bushes, precisely as I have observed Zrapelus ruderatus 
in Persia. 
