244 Lacertidis. 



b. EREMIAS MUCEONATA. 



AcantliodaciyJus mucrnnatn^, Blanl'. Zuol. Abyss, p. 453. fig. 

 (1870). 



Eremias mucronata, Grimtl). Zool. Eec. 1870, p. 71 ; Bouleng. Aim. 

 Mus. Geuova (2) xii, 1891, p. 9, aud Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 921. tig. ; 

 Auclers. Zool. Egypt, Eept. p. 169, pi. xxiii, figs. 1 and 2 (1898) ; Steind. 

 Deuksclir. Ak. Wien, Ixix, 1901, p. 330 ; Bouleug. Jouru. Zool. Res. iii, 

 1918, p. 4. 



Eremias lugubris (uou A. Sinitl}), Vaill. Miss. Ruvoil Pays Coinalis, 

 Rept. p. 23 (1882). 



Pseuderemias lineolata, Boettg. Alili. Senck. Ges. xiii, 1883, p. 118. 



Boulengeria mucronata, Liitaste, Ann. Mus. Geneva (2) ii, 1885, 

 p. 117. 



Eremiaa hrenueri, part., Bouleug. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 86 (1887). 



Head and body stroDgly depressed. Head 1.] to 1 J times as long as 

 broad, its length 3J to 4 times in length to vent in males, 34 to i\ 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior 

 corner or the centre of the eye aud the tympanum ; snout acutely 

 pointed, li times as long as the postocular part of the head, nasals 

 not or liut feebly swollen, canthus sharp, loreal region feebly concave ; 

 a well-marked concavity on the upper surface of the snout, extending 

 along the frontal .shield. Pileus 2 to 2^ times as long as broad. 

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

 the eye or between the eye and the nostril in males, the eye or between 

 the ear and the eye iu females; foot 1' to If times as long as the 

 head ; toes slender, strongly compres.sed. Tail 2 to 3 times as long as 

 head and body. 



Upper head-shields flat, smooth, bomelimes a little rugose aud 

 pitted. Nasals in contact behind the rostral, the suture between them 

 J- to i the leugth of the frontonasal, which is as lung as broad or a 

 little longer thau broad ; prefrontals longer than broad, forming a 

 suture iu the middle ; frontal shorter than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, 1-J to 2|7 times as long as broad, narrow behind, 

 separated from the supraocular.s by a series of small scales, the series 

 rarely double in front ; parietals as long as broad or Itroader than 

 long, not longer than the frontoparietals ; interparietal small, separated 

 from the small occipital by one shield, rarely by two. 'J'hree supra- 

 oculars, in contact with each other, first as long as or shorter than the 

 second and occasionally more or less divided ; 6 or 7, rarely 5 or 8. 

 superciliaries, first longest, separated from the second aud third 



