318 L((certkl;i'. 



Greyish yellow above, witli 7 louiiitiulinal series of siuiill dark 

 brown spots clotted with yellow; hind liiiil) with lar^e round yellowish 

 spots. Lower parts yellowish white. 

 Measurements (in niillimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent . . . .66 



Length of head ...... 16'5 



Width of head lO'S 



Depth of head . . . . .9 



Fore limb . 24-5 



Hind limb ....... 36"5 



Foot 18-5 



Tail 125 



The above is an abstract of Bedriaga's description of a single male 

 specimen from Shiral)ad, Russian Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. 



Distinguished from E. uil-ohl-iihy the broader rostral extensively in 

 contact with the lower nasal. 



26. EEEMIAS FASCIATA. 



Eremias fasciata, Blanf . Ann. & Mag. N.H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 32, 

 and Zool. E. Pers. p. 374, pi. xxv, fig. 3 (1876) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. 

 iii, p. 99 (1887), and Faun. lud., Eept. p. 179 (1890) ; Nikolsky, Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. ii, 1897, p. 25, Herp. Ross. p. 155 (1905), 

 and Herp. Caucas, p. 99 (1913) ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, 

 p. 7. 



Podarces (Eremias) fasciafa, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Eept. p. 26 

 (1876). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed, limbs slender. Head 

 1| to If times as long as broad, its length 3j to 4^ times in length to 

 vent, its depth ec£ual to the distance between the centre of the eye and 

 the tympanum ; snout pointed, with the nasals swollen, as long as the 

 postocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis obtuse, loreal region 

 feebly concave. Pileus 1| to 2 times as long as broad. Hind limb 

 reaching the ear in males, the shoulder, the collar, or between the collar 

 and the ear in females ; foot 1^ to 1| times the length of the head ; 

 toes slender, not compressed, very feebly but distinctly denticulate 

 laterally. Tail 1^ to 2 times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields fiat, smooth ; nasals in contact behind the rostral, 

 the suture between them ^ to f. the length of the frontonasal, which is 



