THE FAUNA OF A DESERT TRACT IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 197 



belongs zoologically, as is shown by the occurrence of such forms as Eryx jacu/us, to Persia 

 rather than to India. Alcock and Finn 1 have published an account of the Reptiles 

 obtained in 1896 by the Afghan-Baluch Boundary Commission which probably gives a 

 truer idea of the same fauna, and I therefore give a list from their paper of the species they 

 enumerate and describe. 



1. Reptiles Collected by the Seistan Commission (1903-5). 



L 7 'sards — 



Teratoscincus scincus § (one specimen). 



Agamura persica § (two specimens). 



Agama isolepis § (three specimens). 

 Phrynocephalus maculatus § (one specimen). 



Varanus griseus § (five specimens). 



Eremias velox § (seven specimens). 



Ophiomorus tridactylus § (five specimens). 



S?iakes — 



Eryx jaculus || (five specimens). 



Lycodon striatus * j| (one specimen). 



Zamenis diadema § (two specimens). 



,, karelinii § (ten specimens). 



Taphrometopum lineolatum § (eight specimens). 



Dipsadomorphus trigonatus ) . 



, ° • , (seven specimens). 

 var., melanocephalus S 



Echis carinatus § * (seventeen specimens). 



Also several specimens in a bad state of preservation. 



2. Reptiles Collected by the Afghan-Baluch Expedition (1896). 



Lizards — 



Teratoscincus scincus. § 

 Ceramodactylus affinis. 

 Stenodactylus orientalis. 

 Gymnodactylus sp. (prox. kachensis). 

 Agamura cruralis. 



,, persica. § 

 Agama isolepis. § 



,, nupta. 



Phrynocephalus olivieri. 

 ,, ornatus. 



I Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, (2), 1896, pp. 530-566. 



