304 



Lactniiih- 



Lengtli of head . 

 Width of head . 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb . 

 Hiud limb . 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 

 1. (J , Karoo flats, type. 

 Karoo ? 



2. J, E. Distr. of Cape Colony. 3. ? 



Faritcidars uf Specimens U.vamined. 



,7 Karoo flats (type) 



2 ,■ (?) ■ • 



(J E. Distr. of Cape Colony 



Habitat. — " Karoo flats, on the Soiith-West Coast of Africa, 

 particularly Little Namaqualand, towards the Great Orange Eiver" 

 (Smith). Mr. J. P. M. Weale obtained specimens in the Eastern 

 district of Cape Colony. There are further records from Clanwilliam 

 and the Middleburg district of Cape Colony, Matjesfontein and 

 Graaff-Eeinet. 



21. EKEMIAS CAPENSLS. 



Lacerta capensis, A. Smith, Mag. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 93. 



Eremias capensis, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 302 (1839) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Liz. p. 40 (1845); A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Kept. pi. xlv, 

 fig. 2, and pi. xlviii, fig. 7 (1845) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, 

 p. 114; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 96 (1887); Hewitt, Ann. Transv. 

 Mus. ii, 1910, p. 110; Sternf. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. v, 1911, p. 405 ; 

 Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 6. 



Eremias laticeps, A. Smith, 111. pi. xlvi, fig. 1, and pi. xlviii, 

 fig. 3. 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head about If times as long 

 as broad, its length 3| to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4?- 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of 

 the eye and the tympanum ; snout a ther obtuse, with the nasal 

 shields strongly swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head. 



