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7. Eremias brevirostris. 



Eremias watsonanus, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Betiff. 1872, p. 125 



(7H'c ante, p. 80). 

 Mesalina brevirostris, Blanf. Zool. E. Pe?-sia, p. 379. 



Very closely allied to B. guttulata. Snout shorter, nasals strongly 

 swollen ; interparietal not in contact with the occipital, which is 

 minute. Yentrals in twelve longitudinal series, only the two 

 median distinctly broader than long. 



Tumb Island, Persian Gulf; Punjab. 



a. Hgr. 

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(Types.) 



8. Eremias rubropunctata. 



Mesalina rubropunctata, Gray, Cat. p. 43. 

 Lacerta rubropunctata, Lichtcnd. Verz. Doiihl. Mus. Berl. p. 100*. 

 Scapteira uebulosa, Gray, Ann. N. If. i. 1838, p. 281. 

 IMesaliua lichtensteinii. Gray, I. c. p. 282. 



Eremias rubropunctata, Bicni. i^- Bibr. v. p. 297 ; Smith, lU. S. Afr., 

 Bept. pi. xlviii. fig. 9. 



Snout rather pointed. Nasals strongly swollen ; frontonasal in 

 contact "with the rostral ; two prjefrontals ; frontal very feebly 

 grooved ; two large supraoculars, second separated from the supra- 

 ciliaries by two or three scries of granules ; one or two scales on a 

 line from the loreal to the anterior supraocular ; interparietal 

 pentagonal, in contact with an occipital ; temporal scales granular, 

 smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid with a semitrans- 

 parent disk formed of several scales ; subocular bordering the lip, 

 normally between the fourth and fifth upper labials ; the three 

 anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. A rather indistinct trans- 

 verse gular fold, connecting the ears ; collar angular, attached 

 mesially. Dorsal scales round, convex, smooth, juxtaposed, 60 to 

 65 across the middle of the body. Ventral plates in straight lon- 

 gitudinal and angular transverse series, not or scarcely broader 



* Types (Berlin Mus., 1113-1116, 1127) examined. 



