818 Lacertldn-. 



Greyish vellow aliove, with 7 lougitudiu;il series of small dark 

 brown spots dotted with yellow; hind liml) with large round yellowish 

 spots. Lower parts yellowish white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent .6(5 



Length of head . 1(3'5 



Width of liead 10-.5 



Depth of head 9 



Fore limb 24-5 



Hind limb . . . . 3f>.5 



Foot . . 18-5 



Tail 126 



Tlie above is an abstract of Bedriaga's description of a single male 

 specimen from Shirabad, Kussiau Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. 



Distinguished from E. >///,-o/,</r// by the broader rostral extensively in 

 contact with the lower nasal. 



26. EREMIAS FASCIATA. 



Kremias fasciata, Blauf. Ann. & Mag. N.H. (4j xiv, 1874, p. 32, 

 and Zool. E. Pars. p. 374, pi. xxv, fig. 3 (1876) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. 

 iii, p. 99 (1887), and Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 179 (1890) ; Nikolsky, Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. ii, 1897, p. 25, Herp. Ross. p. 165 (1905), 

 and Herp. Caucas, p. 99 (1913) ; Bouleug. Journ. Zool. Pes. iii, 1918, 



P- "■ 



Podarces {Ereiiiiaf:) fasciai((, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Pept. p. 26 



(1876). 



Head and body rathei- strongly depressed, limbs slender. Head 

 1| to If times as long as broad, its length 3f to 4^ times in length to 

 vent, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of tlie eye and 

 the tympanum ; suout pointed, with the nasals swollen, as long as the 

 postocular pai't of the head; cauthus rostralis obtuse, loreal region 

 feebly concave. Pileus 1| to 2 times as long as broad. Hind limb 

 reaching the ear in males, tlie shoulder, the collar, or between the collar 

 and the ear in females; foot Ij to If times the length of the head ; 

 toes slender, not compressed, very feebly but distinctly denticulate 

 laterally. Tail 1;^ to 2 times as long as head and bod}-. 



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

 the suture between them ^ to § the length of the frontonasal, -which is 



