304 



Lacerfiibt'. 



Length of head . 

 Width of head . 

 Depth of liead 

 Fore limb . 

 Hind limb . 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 

 1. (^ , Karoo flats, tvpe. 

 Karoo r 



J , E Distr. of Cape Colony. 3. 



Fdrticiilarn uf Specimefis Exa mined. 



ij Karoo flats (type) 



2 , (?J . . 



(7 E. Distr. of Cape Colony 



Afri 



Habitat. — " Karoo flats 

 particularly Little Namaqualaud, towai'ds the Great Orange River" 

 (Smith). Mr. J. P. M. Weale obtained specimens in the Eastern 

 district of Cape Colony. There are further records from Clauwilliam 

 and the Middleburg district of Cape Colony, Matjesfonteiu and 

 Grraaff-Eeinet. 



21. EKEMIAS CAPENSIS. 



Locerta ca^jensin, A. Smith, Mag. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 93. 



Eremias capensis, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gt'u. v, p. 302 (1839) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Liz. p. 40 (1845); A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Kept. pi. xlV, 

 fig. 2. and pi. xlviii, fig. 7 (1845) ; Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac. 1870, 

 p. 114 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 96 (1887) ; Hewitt,, Ann. Transv. 

 Mus. ii, 1910, p. 110; Sternf. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. v. 1911, p. 405 ; 

 Bouleng. Jouru. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 6. 



Eremias laficeps, A. Smith, 111. pi. xlvi, fig. 1, aud pi. xlviii, 

 fig. 3. 



Head aud Ijody strongly depressed. Head about 1§ times as long 

 as broad, its length Sj to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 45- 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of 

 the eye and the tympanum ; snout ather obtuse, with the nasal 

 shields strongly swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head. 



