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Miscellaneous . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On the Occurrence of Eublepharis macularius in Transcaspia. 
By G. A. Botjlehger. 
Eublepharis macularius, Blyth, has long been known as an inhabi- 
tant of North-western India, not uncommon in the Punjab and 
Sind. In 1885 I was able to record it from much further west, 
I)r. Sauvage haying submitted to me a specimen obtained by M. de 
Saulcy in the ruins of Nineveh. This lizard now turns up in 
Southern Transcaspia. M. C. Eylandt has sent me a tail, collected 
by him under peculiar circumstances near Ashkabad, and which 
belongs to Eublepharis macularius . M. Eylandt had noticed a bird 
of prey flying off with a lizard which it had captured ; on approach- 
ing the spot whence the bird had risen, this gentleman found the 
detached tail of the lizard wriggling on the ground. As it differs 
considerably from the tails of any lizard previously observed in that 
district, the object was carefully preserved and submitted to me for 
identification. 
Additional Notes on Peripatus Leuckarti. 
By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 
Some account is given of forty-two specimens of Peripatus from 
three new localities in this colony — Mount Kosciusko, the Blue 
Mountains, and Dunoon, on the Bichmond Biver — all collected since 
the last occasion on which the attention of the Society was drawn 
to this species. Apart from the interest attaching to the occurrence 
of the specimens from Mount Kosciusko at high altitudes (5000- 
5700 feet), where for several months in the year the ground is 
covered with snow, the collection as a whole is remarkable for the 
interesting variations of colour and pattern which are presented, but 
chiefly for the unusual abundance (50 per cent.) of males, the 
characters of which were not found to be precisely in agreement 
with those of the only two male specimens hitherto recorded; that 
is to say, round whitish papillae were found on some or all of the 
legs, with the exception of those of the first pair (not merely on the 
last pair, as in the specimens of Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Dendy), and 
a similar state of things was found to obtain in five other males 
from other localities. On the papillae open the ducts of the crural 
glands, as shown by sections ; even when papillae are not visible the 
apertures of the ducts in well-preserved specimens are generally 
noticeable. Attention is also called to the presence of a pair of 
pores on the ventral surface between the genital aperture and the 
anus, but nearer to the latter, which may possibly be the openings 
of the ducts of accessory glands. The majority of the specimens 
(thirty-five) were obtained at Mount Kosciusko by Mr. B. Helms, 
on behalf of the Australian Museum. — Linn . Soc. of New South 
Wales , Abstract of Proceedings, 30th July, 1890, p. vii. 
