? Khara-Morite 

 IlgT. Oi'dos Desert 



9 Chinese Tm'kestan, P.M. 

 Habitat. — Chiuese Turkestan and Mongolia, from Lob Nor to Ordos. 



30. EEEMIAS MULTIOCELLATA. 



Eremias multioceUata, Giintli. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) x, 1872, 

 p. 419, and in Brenchlev, " Cura9oa," Kept. p. 400 (1873) ; Bouleng. 

 Cat. Liz. iii, p. 103 (1887) ; Nikolsky, Fedtschenko's Reise, Zool. ii, 

 pt. vii, p. 37 (1899), and Herp. Eoss. p. 169 (1905) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. 

 Res. Przewalski Reis., Ampli. Rept. p. 578 (1912) ; Bouleng. Tourn. 

 Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 8. 



Eremias cieruleo-ocellata (nou D. & B.), Anders. Pi'oc. Zool. Soc. 

 1872, p. 373. 



Eremias yarkandensis, Blanf. Jouru. As. Soc. Beng. xliv, 1875, p. 194, 

 and 2nd Yarkand Miss., Rept. p. 16, pi. ii, fig. 3 (1878). 



Eremias yarkandensis, var. saturata, Blanf. 11. cc. fig. 4. 



Podarces {Eremias) multioceUata, Straucli, Voy. Przewalski, Rept. 

 p. 26 (1876). 



Podarces [Eremias) planice^s, Straucli, op. cit. p. 39, pi. iv, fig. 3. 



Eremias multioceUata, var. koslowi, Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Zool. 

 St. Pctersb. x, 1907, p. 183, and op. cit. p. 588, pi. viii, fig. 8. 



? Eremias hueclineri, Bedriaga, ll.cc. pp. 184, 600, pi. viii, fig. 1. 



Habit rather stout or moderately slender, body moderately depressed. 

 Head more or less depressed, 1^ to 1| 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 anterior corner 

 or the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout pointed, nasals not 

 or scarcely swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head, without 

 or with a very feeble concavity above; canthus rostralis rather obtuse, 

 loi-eal region feebly concave. Pileus IJ to 2 times as long as broad. 

 Neck as broad as the head or a little narrower. Hind limb reaching 

 the axil, the shoulder, or the collar in males, the elbow, the axil, or 

 the shoulder in females ; foot as long as tlie head or a little longer (Ii 

 to 1^ times); toes feebly compressed, rather short or moderately 

 elongate. Tail only a trifle longer than head and body, or nearly 

 twice as long. 



U])per head-shields flat, smooth ; nasals in contact behind the 

 rostral, the suture between them \ to -J the length of the frontonasal, 



