14. EUEMIAS. 95 



whitish spots ; sometimes with irreguUirly arranged ocelli ; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length lOG From end of snout 



Head 13 to vent 54 



Width of head 10 Fore limb 21 



From end of snout Hind limb 37 



to fore limb 22 Tail 112 



South Africa. 



a. d- S.Africa. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



b, c, d, e-f. c^ , $ , and hgr. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P. 1 . 

 (/-/i. 2 • S. Africa. 



14. Eremias hurchellii. 



Erenr,ias burcbellii, Gray, Cat. p. 40. 

 Eremias burcbellii, Dum. ^- Bibr. v. p. 40; Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. 

 pi. xlv. fig. 1, and pi. slviii. fig. 4. 



Head moderate ; snout obtuse. Xasals feebly swollen ; fronto- 

 nasal separated from the rostral ; two prsefrontals, forming a very 

 short suture, or separated by a small azygos shield ; frontal not, or 

 very feebly, grooved ; two large supraoculars, bordered anteriorly, 

 posteriorly, and externally with granules ; two or three small scales 

 or granules on a line from the loreal to the anterior supraocular, the 

 length of which equals, or is a little less than, its distance from the 

 loreal ; one or two series of granules between the supraoculars and 

 the supraciliaries ; interparietal pentagonal, longer than the suture 

 between the frontoparietals, in contact with an occipital ; temporal 

 scales granular, smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid 

 with a semitransparent disk formed of several small scales ; subocular 

 bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth, 

 exceptionally sixth and seventh, upper labials ; the three anterior 

 pairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar straight, perfectly free, 

 with 9 to 13 plates. Dorsal scales granular, flat, perfectly 

 smooth, 70 to 75 across the middle of the back. Yentral 

 plates not broader than long, in 14 straight or slightly irregular 

 longitudinal, and 29 to 35 angular transverse series'. Prieanal 

 scales small, subequal, irregular. The adpressed hind limb reaches 

 the shoulder or the ear; the length of the foot equals the dis- 

 tance between the arm and the centre of the eye or the anterior 

 border of the orbit ; a series of very large subtibial shields, and 

 one or two of smaller ones ; scales on limbs small, smooth. 11 

 to 14 femoral pores. Tail about twice as long as head and body ; 

 basal upper caudal scales feebly keeled, subcaudals smooth. 

 Greyish or brownish above, with series of smaller or larger black 

 spots, sometimes confluent into three or four bands on the bodv, five 

 on the nape ; these black markings extend on the head-shields ; 



