96 



LACERTID^. 



round light spots among; the black ones, or along the black bands ; 

 limbs with round whitish, black-edged spots ; lower surfaces white. 



p.l. 



15. Eremias capensis. 



Eremias capensis, Gray, Cat. p. 40. 

 Lacerta capensis, Smith, Mag. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 93. 

 Eremias capensis, Dum. <$• Bihr. v. p. 302 ; Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. 



pi. xlv. lig. 2, and pi. xlviii. fig. 7 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, 



p. 114. 

 laticeps. Smith, I. c. pi. xlvi. fig. 1, and pi. xlviii. fig. 3. 



Head moderate ; snout obtuse. Nasals swollen ; frontonasal form- 

 ing a suture with the rostral ; two prsefrontals, forming a very short 

 suture, or separated by a small azj^gos shield ; frontal not grooved ; 

 two large supraoculars, bordered anteriorly, posteriorly, and exter- 

 nally, and sometimes internally, with granules ; four or five granules 

 on a line between the loreal and the anterior supraociilar, the length 

 of which is less than its distance from the loreal ; one or two series 

 of granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; inter- 

 parietal pentagonal, longer than the suture between the fronto- 

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

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

 parent disk formed of several small scales ; subocular bordering 

 the lip, between the fifth and sixth, sixth and seventh, or 

 seventh and eighth upper labials ; the three anterior pairs of chin- 

 shields in contact. Collar straight, perfectly free, with 9 to 11 

 plates. Dorsal scales round, flat, perfectly smooth, granular 

 or slightly imbricate, 50 to 55 across the middle of the body. 

 Ventral plates not broader than long, forming 14 or 16 rather irre- 

 gular longitudinal, and 32 to 36 angular transverse series. Prcc- 

 anal scales small, subcqual, irregular. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the ear or 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 large subtibial shields and one 



