14. EREMIAS. 91 



limb reaches the posterior border of the orbit ; foot as long as 

 the distance between the arm and the anterior border of the 

 orbit ; one series of large, and two of small, subtibial plates, 18 

 femoral pores. Tail a little over twice the length of head and body ; 

 iil)por caudal scales feebly keeled, lower smooth. Grey above, with 

 small black spots ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. millira. 



Total length 198 From end of snout 



Head 10 to vent 61 



Width of head 12 Fore limb 25 



From end of snout Hind limb 49 



to fore limb .... 27 Tail 137 



Damaraland. 



10. Eremias namaquensis. 



Eremias namaquensis, Gray, Cut. p. 41. 

 Eremias namaquensis, Dum. 4'- Bihr. v. p. 307 ; Smith, III. S. Afr., 



Bept. pi. xliv. fig. 2, and pi. xlviii. fig. (i. 

 bengueleusis, Bocage, Joni. Sc. Lisb. i. 1867, p. 229. 



Head moderate ; snout rather pointed. Nasals feebly swollen ; 

 frontonasal separated from the rostral : usually a small azygos prae- 

 frontal between the two large ones : frontal grooved anteriorly ; two 

 large supraoculars, bordered anteriorly, posteriorly, and externally 

 with granules ; two or three small scales or granules on a line from 

 the lorcal to the anterior supraocular, the length of which equals or 

 exceeds its distance from the loreal ; usually a single series of 

 granules between the supraoculars and the supracDiaries ; interpa- 

 rietal normally pentagonal, longer than the suture between the 

 frontoparietals, in contact with a trapezoid occipital ; a curved 

 hand-like scale on the supcro-anterior border of the ear; temporal 

 scales granular, smooth ; no auiicular deuticulation ; lower eyelid 

 with a semitransparent disk formed of several scales ; subocular bor- 

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

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

 less indistinct gular fold from ear to ear ; collar straight, per- 

 fectly fi'ee, with 9 to 11 plates. Dorsal scales granular, smooth, 

 juxtaposed, blending into the ventral plates, 60 to 65 across the 

 middle of the body. Ventral plates in straight longitudinal and 

 transverse series ; in twelve longitudinal series ; the plates of the 

 median and outer series longer than broad, the others as broad 

 as long, or a little broader than long ; 29 to 34 transverse 

 series. Praeanal scales usually smaU, subequal, irregular ; some- 

 times an enlarged postero-median plate. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the shoulder, or halfway between the shoulder and the 

 ear, in the female, the ear, or between the ear and the eye, in the 

 male ; the length of the foot equals the distance between the arm 

 and the anterior border of the orbit or the nostril ; a series of very 

 large and one of smaller subtibial scales ; scales on upper sur- 



