Eremias. 27l 



Synopsis of the Varieties. 

 I. Lower eyelid with a transparent disc formed of a i^air of large scales, 

 usually edged with black, sometimes with a series of mucli smaller scales 

 below them ; snout usually pointed and a little longer than broad. 

 36 to 5-i (usually 39 to -i?) smooth scales across middle of 

 body; 9 to 15 (usually 10 to 14) femoral pores on each 

 side ........... Forma tyinca. 



II. Lower eyelid with an opaque or more or less transparent disc formed of 3 

 to 8 pieces, not black-edged. 



A. Snout usually obtusely pointed and not or but slightly longer than 



broad. 

 35 to 50 (usually 40 to 47) smooth scales across middle of body ; 



9 to 15 femoral pores on each side .... Var. oliviert, Aud. 



32 to 38 smooth scales across middle of body ; 10 to 14 femoral 



pores on each side Var. mavtini, Blgr. 



47 to 62 smooth scales across middle of body ; J 4 to 17 (rarely 



12 or 1 3) femoral pores on each side . . . Vnv. latastii, Bh^r. 

 52 keeled scales across middle of body ; 13 or 14 femoral pores 



on each side Var. susana, Blgr. 



B. Snout pointed, longer than broad. 



36 to 42 smooth scales across middle of body; 11 to 15 femoral 



pores on each side Var. halfouri, Blanf . 



The vars. olivieri and martini must be regarded as the most 

 primitive forms, from which all the others are directly aud iu- 

 depeudeutly derived. 



12. EREMIAS ADEAMITANA. 



Erewias brevirostris, part., Auders.Herp. Arab. p. 43 (1896). 

 Eremias adramitana, Bouleug. Auu. & Mag. N. H. (8) xix, 1917, 

 p. 279, aud Jouru. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 5. 



Head aud body strougly depressed, limbs very sleuder. Head 1| 

 times as long as broad, its length 4 to 42 times in length to veut, its 

 depth equal to the distance between the centime or the posterior coruer 

 of the eye aud the tympanum ; suovit pointed, with the nasal shields 

 rather strougly swollen, as loug as broad, as long as the postocular 

 part of the head ; cauthus rostralis sharp, loreal region feebly concave ; 

 a shallow concavity on the upper surface of the snout, extending to 

 the middle of the frontal shield. Pileus nearly twice as long as broad. 

 Neck narrower than the head. Hind limb reaching between the 

 collar aud the ear in males, the shoulder or the collar in females ; 

 foot 1 ^ to 1 J times as loug as the head ; toes slender, feebly compressed. 

 Tail If to 2i times as long as head aud body. 



