Eremias. 



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^ Anseba, Eritrea (type) 

 „ Walker's Torrent „ 

 ,, Ras Beilul, Assab . 



Assab 

 Obok 



„ Djibouti 



S Mandah, Soinaliland 



Inland of Berljera 



Goolis Mts 

 Zaila 



Biji 

 Laffaruo-h-Aberis 



45 70 8 28 9 26 



8-6 



8-7 



6 



18 

 15-16 

 19-18 

 19-20 



17 



19 



17 

 19-18 



17 25 6 



18-20 21 6-5 



19-20 25 S 



19 24 6 



23-22 25 6 



19-18 24 7-6 



21 25 6 



21-20 22 6 



24 17-16 22 6 



28 20-19 23 6 



26 19-20 24 6 



24 18 25 5 



25 17-16 25 6 



26 22-21 25 6 

 25 19 25 6 

 22 16-17 24 6-5 



Hah'dat. — Sinaitic Peuiusula, West Coast of the Eed Sea (as far 

 north as Mersa Alaibo, Egypt), Eritrea, Soiualilaud. A specimen 

 from Siikkur, Siud, associated with two Acanthodacf i/lus cantoris, is 

 preserved iu the Boniba_y N.H. Society's Museum.* 



Although not widely remote from E. spekii and E. Iiignhris, this aud 

 the four followiug species constitute a very distinct section, charac- 

 terized by the four nasal shields (a character which occurs also, 

 exceptionally, in the section Eremias proper), strongly compressed and 

 unicarinate toes, aud by the ensemble of the characters, the five species 

 being very closely allied. 



6. EEEMIAS SMITHII. 



Eremias smithii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 534, pi. xxix, 

 fig. 4, and 1896, p. 925, fig., and Ann. Mus. Genova (2) xvii, 1896, 

 pp " '■ 



9, 19; Lounberg, Svensk. Vetensk. Ak. Handl. xlvii, 1911, no. 6, 



p. 15 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 4. 



* I suggested to the curator, Mr. Kinnear, the possibility of an error in the 

 locality, but he assures me he feels confident that the indication is trustworthy. 



