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plates around the middle of the body and 10 femoral pores, the latter 70 

 granules and plates around the body and 1 1 femoral pores on each leg. 



Habitat. — Owing to the doubt whether certain references to FJ. 

 argus may not in reality belong to E. hrenclileyi, it is at present impos- 

 sible to define the habitats of these two forms exactly. The diffi- 

 culty is increased by the fact that both seem to occur together, in 

 " some localities, at least. 



As far as can be made out at present E. argus occurs in northeastern 

 China; thus at Chefu, whence came the types; at Kiautshou and 

 Tsingtau, recorded by Werner; and at Peking, from the neighbor- 

 hood of which city Moellendorff, Steindachner, and Boettger, have 

 recorded several specimens. Fischer, wdio also distinguishes between 

 the two forms, mentions specimens of true E. argus from "eastern 

 Mongolia." During Count Zichy's third Asiatic voyage it was col- 

 lected in the same general region, viz, at Shara-murun, in eastern 

 Mongolia, and farther east on the road to Peking between Daba and 

 Khalgan. 



It was fu'st recorded from Korea by F. Mueller, wdio presented a 

 specimen from Chemulpo to the Basel Museum, and four other speci- 

 mens are in the St. Petersburg Museum from the same locality, col- 

 lected by Bunge in 1889 and 1891. The late P. L. Jouy, during 

 June and August, 1883, obtained three specimens at Seoul, wdiich 

 are now in the United States National Museum. 



List of specimens of Eremias argus. 



a Description p. 249, figs. 217-219. 6 P. 250. 



Genus LACERTA" Linnaeus. 



1758. Lacerta Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., I, jj. 200 (type, L. agilis); 12 ed., I, 



1766, p. 359. 

 1830. Zootoca Wagler, Nat. Syst. Ampli., p. 155 (type, L. vivipara). 

 1851. Atropis Glueckselig, Lotos, 1851 (p. 138) (same type). 



LACERTA VIVIPARA& Jacquin. 



1787. Lacerta vivipara Jacquin, Nova Acta Helvet., I (p. 33, pi. i) (type-local- 

 ity, Schneeberg, near Vienna, Austria).— Dobrotvorski, Izvest. Sibirsk. 

 Otd. Geogr. Obstch., I, 1870 (p. 23) (southern Sakhalin).— Bedriaga, 

 Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., XIV, Pt. 2, 1886, p. 338 (Padun, Baikal 

 Lake; Sakhalin). — Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, 1887, p. 23 



tt Signifying lizard. 



b Signifying bearing living young. 



