rj Anseba, Eritrea (type) 

 „ Walker's Torrent „ 

 ,, Eas Beilul, Assab 



Assab 

 Obok 



P.M. 



Djibouti 



Mandah, Somaliland 



Berbera 



? 



$ Inland of Berbera 



9 Goolis Mts. Somaliland 



,. Zaila 



„ Biji 



$ Laifarugh-Aberis „ 



Habitat. — Sinaitic Peuius 

 north as Mersa Ala'ibo, Eo- 



ula, West Coast of the Red Sea (as far 

 ypt), Eritrea, Somalilaucl. A specimen 

 from Sukkur, Siud, associated with two Acanthodactylus cantoris, is 

 preserved in the Bombaj' N.H. Society's Museum.* 



Although not widely remote iromE. spekii and E. lugnbris, this a.nd 

 the four following species constitute a very distinct section, charac- 

 terized by the four nasal shields (a character which occurs also, 

 exceptionally, in the section ^reiHias proper), strongly compressed and 

 unicarinate toes, and by the ensemble of the characters, the five species 

 being very closely allied. 



6. EREMIAS SMITHII. 



Eremias smithii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 634, pi. xxix, 

 fig. 4, and 1896, p. 925, fig., and Ann. Mus. Genova (2) xvii, 1896, 

 pp. 9, 19; Lonuberg, Svensk. Vetensk. Ak. Handl. xlvii, l9ll, no. 6, 

 p. 15 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 4. 



* I suggested to the curator, Mr. Kinnear, the possibility of an error in the 

 locality, but he assures me he feels confident that the indication is trustworthy. 



