14. EKTIMIAS. 87 



Abyssinia, Somaliland, Arabia. 



a. J , Anseba valley, Abyssinia. W. T. Blanford, l^sq. [P.]. 



(Type of Acanthudactijbis mitcronuius.) 



b. $ . Walkor's Torrent, Abyssinia. W. Jesse, Esq. [C.]. 



c. J . Mt. Sinai. 



5. Eremias pardaloides. 

 Mesalina pardaloides, Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 381. 



Agrees in every respect witli E. guttidata, except in having only 

 eight longitudinal rows of ventral plate8 instead of ten, the outer 

 row consisting of very small plates. The hind limb reaches the 

 ear. 



Ilenjam Island, Persian Gulf. 



6. Eremias guttulata. 



Eremias guttulata, Gray, Cat. p. 41. 

 ]\[esalina pardalis, Gray, I. c. p. 43. 

 Lacerta guttulata, Lichf. Verz. Douhl. Mvs. Berl. p. 101 *. ^ 



olivieri, part., Atid. Descr. Eyypte, Eept., Suppl. p. 175, pi. ii. 



tigs. 1. 2. 



ohvieri, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. 1829, pp. 13, 84, pi. vi. 



fig. 5. 



Scapteira punctulata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 281. 

 Eremias guttulata, Dum. hf Bihr. \. p. 310 ; Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. 



pi. xlviii. fig. 8 ; Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 38 ; Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 



1880, p. 308. 

 paidalis, Din??. (§• Bihr. ^. 312; Smith, I. c. fig. 13; Guichen. 



Explor. Ah/., Bcpt. p. 15, pi. i. fig. 2 ; Strauch, I. c. p. 309. 

 (Mesalina) watsonana, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beny. 1872, 



p. 86; Murray, Zoo!. Sind, p. 349. 

 Mesalina pardalis, Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 377 ; Murray, I. c. 



p. 350. 



guttulata, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlviii. 1879, p. 127. 



Podarces (Mesalina) simoni, Boettg. Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 571, and 



Ahh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 116, pi. i. fig. 3*. 

 Eremias (Mesalina) balfouri, Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 467. 



In habit very similar to Lacerta muralis. Snout rather pointed. 

 Kasals more or less swollen ; frontonasal separated from the rostral 

 by the upper nasals ; two praefrontals ; frontal feebly grooved ; four 

 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 un- 

 frequently of several, seldom of one, scales ; subocular bordering 

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



* Types examined. 



