258 Laceriidx. 



11. EREMIAS GUTTULATA. 

 FORMA TYPICA. 



Lacerta ijutfulata, Lichteust. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 101 (1823) ; 

 Hempr. & Elirenb. Svmb. Phys., Zool., Ampli. pi. ii, fio-. 1 (1899). 



Lacerta olivieri, part., And. Descr. Egypte, Kept., Suppl. p. 175, 

 pi. ii, &s, I (1829) ; M.-Edw. Auii. Sc. Nat. xvi, 1829, pp. 73, 84. 



Scapteira jninctulata, Gray, Aun. N. H. i, 1838, p. 281. 



Eremias pardalis (uou Licht.), Dum. &. Bibr. Erp. Gl'u. v, p. 312 

 (1839). 



MesaJina j^nrdalis, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. -lo (1845) ; Blauf. Zool. E. 

 Pers. p. 377 (1876). 



Eremias guttulata, A. Sinitli, III. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. pi. xlviii, fig. 8 

 (1845) ; Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac. 1880, p. 308 ; Nikolsky, Fedscbeuko's 

 Reise, Zool. ii, pt. vii, p. 34 (1899); Doumergue, Erp. Orau. p. 198, 

 pi. XV, fig. 1 (1901); Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii, p. 145; 

 Auderss. iu Jiigersk. Res. Swed. Exped. Egypt, i, no. 4, p. 7 (1904) ; 

 Bouleng. Jouru. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 5. 



Eremias (Mesalina) watsonana, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1872, p. 86. 



Mesalina pardaloides, Blauf. Ann. A Mag. N. H. (4) xiv, 1874, 

 p. 32, and Zool. E. Pers. p. 381. 



Mesalina guttulata, Blauf. Jouru. As. Soc. Beng. xlviii, 1879, p. 127. 



Podarces (Eremias) 2)ardaJ is, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879^80, p. 50. 



Eremias guttulata, part., Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 87 (1887), Faun. 

 Iud.,Rept. p. 177 (1890), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii, 1891, p. 132 ; Anders. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 15, Herp. Arab. p. 43 (1896), and Zool. 

 Egypt, Rept. p. 174, pi. xxiii, fig. 3 (1898); Nikolsky, Herp. Ross, 

 p. 144 (1905) ; Weruer, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxvii, 1909,'p. 608. 



Eremias pardaloides, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. I.e. 



Head and body rather strougly depressed. Head 1| to Ij? times as 

 long as broad, its length 3f to 4 times iu length to vent iu males, 4 to 

 4^ times iu females, its depth equal to the distance between the 

 centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout pointed, with the nasal 

 shields more or less swollen, as long as broad or a little longer than 

 broad, as long as or sliglitly longer than the postocular part of the 

 head ; canthus rostralis obtuse or sharp, loreal region feebly concave ; 

 a more or less distinct concavity in the middle of the upper surface of 

 the snout, extending to the middle or to the posterior extremity of the 

 frontal shield. Pileus 1^ to 2 times as long as Ijroad. Neck as broad 

 as the head or a little constricted. Hind limb reaching the collar or 



