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11. Description of a New South African Lizard of the genus Eremias. 

 -By a. A. BOULENGER, LLJX, D.Sc., F.E.S. (Published by 

 permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



EKEMIAS ASPEEA, sp. n. 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head 1| times as long 

 as broad, its length 4 to 4J times in length to vent, its depth equal to 

 the distance between the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout 

 obtusely pointed, with the nasals very feebly swollen, as long as the 

 postocular part of the head ; a feeble concavity in the middle of the 

 upper surface of the snout, extending to the middle of the frontal 

 shield. Pileus nearly twice as long as broad. Neck a little narrower 

 than the head. Hind limb reaching the collar or a little beyond ; 

 foot 1^ times as long as the head ; toes rather slender, feebly com- 

 pressed. Tail twice or a little less than twice as long as head and 

 body. 



Upper head- shields flat, very rugose, with granular asperities. 

 Nasals in contact with each other behind the rostral, the suture 

 between them ~ to -j the length of the frontonasal, which is a little 

 broader than long ; praefrontals as long as broad or longer than 

 broad, separated by an azygos shield ; frontal a little shorter than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, 1| to If times as long as broad, 

 separated from the supraoculars by a series of small scales ; parietals 

 as long as broad ; interparietal larger than the f vontoparietals, in 

 contact with or naiTOwly separated from a very small occipital. Two 

 supraoculars, together hardly f the length of the supraocular region, 

 the first shorter than the second, the space in front of them filled 

 by 4 or 5 transverse series of granules ; 6 or 7 superciliaries, separated 

 from the supraoculars by 2 or 3 series of granules. Three nasals, 

 lower in contact with the rostral ami the first upper labial ; anterior 

 loreal as long as deep or a little deeper than long, shorter than the 

 second ; 4 or 5 upper labials anterior to the subocular, which is keeled 

 below the eye and largely borders the mouth, its lower border much 

 narrower than the upper. Temporal scales granular, keeled ; no 



