316 Li(crrfiil;t'. 



Sc-ak's yraiuilar. sinontli, Go across tlu' middle oi the body. Ventral 

 plates as louo- as In-oad or longer than hroad, in 14 oblique longi- 

 tudinal and 31 transverse series. Preanal region covered with small 

 irregular plates. 



Upper surface of arm with small smooth scales. Scales on upper 

 surface of 1ii)ia. similar to dorsals; lower surface with one row of 

 large and one of small plates. 17 femoral pores on each side, the two 

 series narrowly separated in tlie middle. 



Basal upper cavidids obtusely keeled, lower smooth. 

 Brown above, with 9 longitudinal series of small dark spots, the 

 outer on the limit of the ventral region ; the dorsolateral series formed 

 of larger, squarish spots, light-edged on each side; liind limbs with 

 light, dark-edged spots. Lower parts yellowish white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent .... 6-5 

 Length of head . . . . 14- 



Width of head 9 



Depth of head 7 



Fore limb 21 



Hind limb . . 32 

 Foot 15 



This species is established on a single female specimen from Tengu- 

 Bar, Southern Alai, Russian Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. The above account is compiled from Bedriaga's descrip- 

 tion and figure. 



E. nikolsJcii is regarded by its describer as connecting E. velox with 

 E. multiocellata, but differing from both by the broader rostral* ; in 

 the narrow separation of the series of femoral pores it is easily 

 distinguished from the latter species. But I cannot help feeling 

 doubtful as to the validity of the species, which may be founded on 

 an aberrant specimen of E. velox. 



■lb. EREMIAS REGELI. 



Eremias reijeli, Bedriaga, in Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 479 (1905), 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. x, 1907, p. 235, and Wiss. Res. 

 Przewalski Reis., Amph. Rept. p. 544, pi. viii, fig. 2 (1912) ; 

 Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 7. 



Head and body moderately depressed. Head a little more than 1^ 



* Its lower border lonpjer than the sijaee between the first large sui:)raocular 

 and the anterior loreal (prepalpoliral sjjaee of Bedria<;a). 



