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Measurements (iu millimetres) : 



<? ? 



From end of snout to veut .... 41 40 



forelmib . . .16 13 



Length of head 10 9 



Width of head 7 6 



Depth of head 4 4 



Fore limb 14 14 



Hind limb 26 23 



Foot 14 13 



Particular)' of SiJeciineiis Examined. 



Tail 



<? (Type) 



P.M. 



(Type) 



P.M. 



Habitat. — Hadiamut, South Arabia. 



This species differs from E. brevirui:lris, with which it has been 

 confounded by Anderson, in the more depressed head, longer in pro- 

 portion to its width, the more slender limbs, and the ventral plates 

 constantly iu ten longitudinal series. 



13. EEEMIAS BREVIEOSTEIS. 



Eremias watsonanug, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 125 

 (nee ante, p. 86). 



Mesaliiia brevirostris, Bliinf. Ann. A Mag. N. H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 32, 

 and Zool. E. Pers. |.. 379 (1876). 



Eremias brevirostris, Bouleng. Cat. Li/, iii, p. 89 (1887), and Faun. 

 Ind., Kept., p. 177 (1890) ; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torin. ix, 1894, no. 167, 

 p. 8 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 6. 



Eremias brevirostris, part., Anders. Herp. Arali. p. 43 (1896). 



Eremias heniouUii, Schenkel, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, xiii, 1901, 

 p. 187, fig. 



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