14. EREillAS. 97 



or two of smaller ones, 12 to 14 femoral pores. Tail about 

 twice as long as head and body ; upper caudal scales, at tho 

 base, smooth or feebly keeled ; basal subcaud;ib smooth. Coppery 

 brown above, with black reticulations, sometimes confined to the 

 sides ; sometimes a light or a dark vertebral band, bifurcating on 

 the nape, and one or two light lateral bands ; limbs with round 

 whitish, black-edged spots ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. milliin. 



Total length 2U0 From end of snout 



Head 16 to vent 68 



Width of head 13 Fore limb 28 



From end of snout Hind limb 45 



to fore limb 28 Tail 132 



South Africa. 



a-b. (S- Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Types.) 



c~d. cf . Cape Colony. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



e. S- Mouth of the Orange Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type of 



Kiver. E. laticeps.) 

 f-S- S. Africa. 



16. Eremias velox. 



Eremias velox, Gray, Cat. p. 40. 

 Lacerta velox, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 457 ; Daiid. Rept. iii. p. 202 ; 



Eversm. Xouv. Mem. Sue. Mosc. iii. 1834, p. 355, pi. xxx. fig. 3. 



cruenta, Pall. I. c. 



deserti, Lepechin, Tageh. Reise Russ. R. i. p. 318, pi. xxii. 



figs. 3, 4 ; Daud. Rept. iii. p. 199. 

 Sciucus cruentatus, Daud. I. c. p. 278. 

 Lacerta coccinea, Merr. Tent. p. 09. 



tigrina, Kukl, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat. p. 119. 



• argulus, Eichw. Zool. Spec. Ross. Pol. iii. p. 188. 



Podarcis velox, 3fenetr. Cat. Rais. p. 62 ; Eichw. Eauti. Caxp.-Cauc. 



76 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 376. 

 Lacerta vittata, Eversm. I. c. p. 358, pi. xxxi. fig. 4. 

 Eremias velox, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 9 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, 



p. 374 ; Eessler, Tr. St. Petersb. Nat. Soc. viii. 1878, Stwpl. 



p. 166. 



cajruleo-ocellata, Dum. ^ Bibr. v. p. 295. 



Aspidorhinus gracilis, Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 74, pi. xi. 



figs. 4-6. 

 Eremias variabihs (non Pall.), De Fil. Viag. Pers. p. 354. 



erythrurus, Severzow, Faun. Turkest. p. 71. 



persica, Blanf. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 370, and 



Zool. E. Pers. p. 370, pi. xxvi. fig. 1. 

 Podarces (Eremias) velox, Strauch, Voy. Przervalski, Rept. p. 26. 



( ) persica, Strauch, I. c. 



? Eremias strauchi, Kessler, I. c. p. 166, pi. ii. 



Eremias velox, y&x. persica, Boettgcr, m Radde, Faun. Flor. Casp - 



Geb. p. 50. 



Head moderate ; snout rather obtuse. Nasals swollen, the lower 

 usually in contact with tbe rostral ; frontonasal separated from the 

 rostral ; two priefrontals (occasionally with a small additional median 



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