14. EREMIAS. 93 



12. Ereniias piilchella. 



Ereniias imlcLella, (tratj, Cat. p. 42. 

 Eremias annulilei-a, Sinitli, III. !S. Afr.^ llejjt. pi. xlvii. fig. 1, and 

 pi. Iviii. ti<r. 14 {(.)ct. 1845). 



pulchra, Smith, I. c. figs. 2, 12. 



foruiosa, Sinitft, I. c. figs. 3, 15. 



Head moderate ; snout rather obtuse. Head-shields rather rugose 

 in the adult. Nasals swollen ; frontonasal separated from the 

 rostral (abnormally a small azygos sliield may be present between 

 the nasals); two pnefrontals, sometimes a small azygos shield between; 

 frontal grooved anteriorly ; two large supraoculars, bordered ante- 

 riorly, posteriorly, and externally with granules ; four or five small 

 scales or granules on a line from the loreal to the anterior supra- 

 ocular, the length of which is less than its distance from the loreal ; 

 two or three series of granules between the supraoculars and the 

 supraciliaries ; interparietal pentagonal, longer than the suture 

 between the frontoparietals, in contact with a trapezoid occipital ; 

 temporal scales granular, smooth or obtusely keeled ; anterior border 

 of ear subdeuticulated ; lower eyelid with a large transparent disk 

 formed of two scales ; subocular bordering the lip, normally between 

 the fifth and sixth upper labials ; the two anterior pairs of chin- 

 shields in contact. Collar straight, perfectly free, with 11 to 

 15 plates. Dorsal scales granular anteriorly, gradually larger, 

 rhomboidal, subimbricate, and more or less distinctly keeled poste- 

 riorly ; 55 to 75 scales across the middle of the body. Ventral 

 plates in straight longitudinal and slightly angular 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 ; 31 to 36 transverse series. Prse- 

 anal plates subequal, irregular. The adprcssed hind limb reaches 

 the ear, or between the latter and the eye ; 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 largo subtibial shields, and one 

 of smaller ones ; scales on upper surface of tibia larger than dorsals, 

 rhomboidal, imbricate, keeled ; scales on upper surface of humerus 

 larger than gulars, rhomboidal, strongly imbricate, obtusely keeled. 

 13 to 16 femoral pores. Tail twice, or less than twice, as long 

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

 Bubcaudals smooth or obtusely keeled. Greyish or brownish above, 

 usually with black and white or blue ocelli on the back and limbs ; 

 sometimes a black, light-edged band along each side of the back ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 143 From end of snout 



Head 14 to vent 58 



Width of head 10 Fore limb 23 



From end of snout Hind limb 42 



to fore limb .... 24 Tail (reproduced) . . 85 



South Africa. 



