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198. Eremias guttulata. 



Lacerta guttulata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 101. 

 Eremias (Mesalina) watsonana, Stoliczka, P. A. S. B. 1872, p. 86; 



Theob. Cat. p. 43 ; Murr. Zool. Sind, p. 349. 



Mesalina pardalis, Blanf. Zool. E. Pei-s. p. 377 ; Murr. 1. c. p. 350. 

 Eremias guttulata, Boiileng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 87. 



Snout rather pointed. Nasals more or less swollen ; frontonasals 

 separated from the rostral by the upper nasals ; 2 prsefrontals ; 4 

 supraoculars, first and fourth very small, sometimes broken up, the 

 first in contact with the loreal ; a series of granules between the 

 two principal supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; interparietal 

 pentagonal, in contact with a small occipital; temporal scales 

 granular, smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid with a 

 more or less transparent disk formed usually of two, not unfre- 

 quently of several scales, seldom of one ; subocular bordering the 

 lip, normally between the fourth and fifth upper labials ; the 

 three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. A more or less 

 marked transverse gular fold, connecting the ears; collar curved 

 or more or less angular, free or attached (sometimes indistinct) 

 in the middle, formed of 8 to 13 plates. Dorsal scales roundish, 

 convex, smooth, juxtaposed, 40 to 55 across the middle of the 

 body ; ventral plates in straight longitudinal and transverse series, 

 broader than long ; in 10 longitudinal series, the outer series 

 composed of very small plates. Normally a large praeanal plate, 

 bordered by two semicircles of smaller ones. The hind limb reaches 

 the shoulder or not so far in the female, the shoulder or halfway 

 between the shoulder and the ear in the male ; foot as long as 

 the distance between the arm and the anterior border of the orbit 

 or the centre of the eye ; one series of large, or two of small, 

 subtibial plates. 10 to 17 femoral pores. Tail once and a half to 

 twice the length of the head and body; upper caudal scales strongly 

 keeled ; basal subcaudals smooth or very obtusely keeled. Greyish 

 or rufous-brown above, with very variable markings; series of black 

 spots and white ocelli, or series of more or less confluent blackish 

 spots along the body ; some specimens with irregularly scattered 

 blackish dots, or with regular blackish and white longitudinal 

 lateral bands ; others with a broad dark grey vertebral band with 

 a series of shaft-like blackish marks on each side of it, &c. ; lower 

 surface white. 



From snout to vent 2 inches ; tail 4. 



Hob. North Africa ; South-western Asia, from Arabia and 

 Syria to Afghanistan and Sind. 



199. Eremias brevirostris. 



Eremias watsonanus, StoUczka, P. A. S. B. 1872, p. 125 (nee ante, 



p. 86). 

 Mesalina brevirostris, Blanf. A. M. N. H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 32; id. 



Zool. E. Persia, p. 379 ; Theob. Cat. p. 43. 

 Eremias brevirostris, Boukiig, Cat. Liz. iii, p. 89. 



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