Eremias. 333 



Habit rather slender, as in E. velox. Head moderately depressed ; 

 suout rather poiuted ; nasals not or but feebly swollen. Tail a little 

 more than twice the length of head and body. 



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

 frontal in contact with the supraoculars ; parietals as long as broad ; 

 no occipital ; two large supraoculars, bordered by granules in front 

 and behind, and a small third ; fir.st supraocular longer than its distance 

 from the posterior loreal. Rostral moderately large ; lower nasal in 

 contact with the 2 or 3 anterior upper labials ; subocular bordering 

 the mouth ; temporal scales moderate or small. 



3 anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact in the middle ; 25 to 29 

 gular scales in a median longitudinal series. 



Ventral plates in 16 or 18 oblique longitudinal series. 



15 to 17 femoral pores on each side, the space between the two series 

 2 to 2 J times in the length of each. 



Pale brown above, with 4 or 5 light longitudinal streaks ; limbs with 

 light ocellar spots ; lower parts yellowish white. 



Total length 140 millimetres. 



Habitat. — Nachitschewan, Erivan Grovernment, Transcaucasia. 



This species has been briefly described from two specimens preserved 

 in the Petrograd Museum, which have since been identified by Nikolsky 

 with E.fasciata, Blanf. The wide separation between the two series 

 of femoral pores appears, however, sufficient reason for provisionally 

 maintaining E. lAeslcii as distinct. 



32. EREMIAS INTERMEDIA. 



Podarces (Eremias) intermedia, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Eejjt. 

 p. 28 (1876). 



Eremias intermedia, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 100 (1887) ; Boettg. 

 Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, p. 908 ; Nikolsky, Fedtschenko's Eeise, Zool. ii, 

 pt. vii, p. 36 (1899), and Herp. Ross. p. 157 (1905) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. 

 Res. Przewalski Reis., Amph. Rept. p. 613, pi. viii, tig. 3 (1912) ; 

 Tzarewsky, Trav. Soc. Nat. Petrogr. xliii, 4, 1914, p. 32 ; Boideng. 

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



Eremias iranscaspica , Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 482 ; Elpatjewsky 

 & Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxiv, 1906, p. 253. 



Eremias nigrocellata, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. i, 

 1896, p. 371, and ii, 1897, p. 21, pi. xviii, fig. 2. 



Eremias intermedia, var. nigrocellata, Nikolsky, op. eit. iv, 1899, 

 p. 399. 



Eremias intermedia, var. oxyrrhina, Bedriaga, op. cit. pi. viii, fig. 5. 



Habit more or less stout, body more or less depressed. Head rather 



