234 Lacertidn\ 



Particulars of Specimen Examined. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 

 9 Garamba . . . . 57 61 6 27 8 42 13 23 5 



Habitat. — Uelle Proviuce of the Belgian Congo. 



2. EREMIAS QUADRINASALIS. 



Eremias quadrinasaJis, Chaban. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1918, p. 108. 



Head and body moderately depressed. Head Ijv times as long as 

 broad, its length a little more than 4 times in length to vent ; snout 

 obtuse, with very feebly marked canthus ; nasals not swollen ; a rather 

 deep concavity on the upper surface of the snout and along the frontal 

 shield. Hind limb hardly reaching the collar ; foot a little longer than 

 the head ; toes moderately compressed. 



Upper head-shields flat, smooth. Nasals in contact behind the 

 rostral ; frontonasal much broader than long ; frontal a little longer 

 than its distance from the rostral ; parietals longer than broad ; inter- 

 parietal twice as long as broad, f the length of the suture between the 

 frontoparietals ; occipital very small, separated from the interparietal 

 by the parietals meeting on the median line. Two large supraoculars, 

 preceded by 2 and followed by 3 or 4 small shields ; 7 superciliaries, 

 first and second largest ; a series of granules between the supraoculars 

 and the superciliaries. Nostril between 4 nasals : an upper, an anterior, 

 a lower, and a posterior, the lower just touching the rostral and 

 resting on the first upper labial ; 5 upper labials anterior to the sub- 

 ocular, which borders the mouth. A long and narrow anterior 

 temporal, followed by two small shields ; temporal scales small, 

 granular. Lower eyelid opaque, scaly. 



4 pairs of chin-shields, only the first in contact in the middle ; 

 a feeble gular fold. Collar feebly curved, free, composed of 8 plates. 



Scales juxtaposed, keeled, larger towards the ventral plates, 65 to 

 68 across middle of body. Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal and 28 

 transverse series. A large preaual, preceded by 2 smaller plates. 



Scales on upper surface of tibia a little larger than dorsals. 14 

 femoral pores on each side. Subdigital lamellae bicarinate, 26 under 

 the fourth toe. 



Pale brown above, reddish on the tail ; a blackish vertebral band, 

 from the occiput to the lumbar region ; a black streak on each side of 

 it on the nape ; sides blackish, spotted with lighter, with two light 

 streaks, the upper from the eye to the inguinal region, the lower from 



