02 LACEETID^. 



face of tibia much lar2,Tr than dorsals, rhomhoidal, feebly imbricate, 

 keeled ; scales on iii)])er surface of aim much larger than the 

 largest gulars, rhomboidal, strongly imbricate, smooth or obtusely 

 keeled. 13 to IG femoral pores. Tail more than twice as long as 

 head and body ; upper caudal scales strongly keeled ; basal subcaudals 

 smooth or obtusely keeled. Pale buff above, -with five longitudinal 

 blackish bands, the median usually narrowest and bifurcate on the 

 nape, the outer passing through the ears ; these bands do not extend 

 on the upper surface of the head ; sometimes series of whitish dots 

 on the black bands ; limbs brown, with round whitish spots ; lower 

 surfaces white, 



d. 2- 



millini. millim. 



Total length 179 132 



Head 12 11 



Width of head 7 7 



From end of snout to fore limb .... 19 18 



From end of snout to vent 51 52 



Fore limb 19 17 



Hind limb 37 31 



Tail 128 80 * 



South Africa. 



a, b-d. (S,2>^ ^g^- G^reat Namaqualand. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Types.) 



e. cJ . Great Namaqualand. 



f-g. 2 • Damaialaud. 



h.'jlgr. Cape Colony. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



i_k. d 2 • Katfi-aria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



I. (^ . S. Africa. 



11. Eremias undata. 



Eremias undata, Grai/, Cat. p. 42, 

 Lacerta undata, Smith, Mag. N. H. ii. iS.'iS, p. 9.3. 

 Eremias imdata, Dtim. ^ Bihr. v. p. 316 ; Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. 

 pi. xliv. tig. 1, and pi. xlviii. fig. 11. 



Very closely allied to E. namaquensis, from which it differs in the 

 following points : — Snout longer and narrower; the length of the 

 granular space between the loreal and the anterior supraocular con- 

 siderably greater than the length of the latter ; two series of granules 

 between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; anterior border of 

 ear subdenticulated : lower eyelid with two large transparent scales. 

 Yentral plates in ten longitudinal scries, those of the median and 

 outer series longer than broad, the others a little broader than 

 long. Yellowish above, with five longitudinal dark brown bands, 

 the outer passing through the ears. 



From snout to vent (52 millim. 



South Africa, between Cape Town and Little ^N'amaqualand. 



a. J . S. Africa. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



* Eepruduced. 



