102 LACEETIDJS. 



slightly compressed posteriorly ; upper caudal scales smooth or 

 feehly keeled. Young greyish above, with white, black-edged 

 ocelli, which may be confluent into transverse bands, rarely into 

 longitudinal ones ; the ocelli persist in the adult or are replaced by 

 black marbliugs or irregular transverse bands. 



s. .?. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 153 140 



Head 18 16 



AVidth of head 14 13 



From end of snout to fore limb .... 30 25 



From end of snout to vent 73 70 



Fore limb 26 24 



Hind limb 37 33 



Tail 80 70 



The largest specimens, male and female, with broken or repro- 

 duced tail, measure 98 and 94 millim., from snout to vent, respec- 

 tively. 



Southern Eussia, Transcaucasia, Turkestan. 



Odessa. St. Petersburg Museum [E. 



Crimea. St. Petersburg Museum [E. 



Baku. St. Petersburg Museum [E. 



Transcaucasia. St. Petersburg Museum "E. 



Dougus, Gov. Orenburg. St. Petersburg Museum E. 



Kirghiz Steppes. St. Petersburg Museum "E. 



River Emba. St. Petersburg Museum ! E. 



Mangisclilak. St. Petersburg Museum [E. 



Novo Alexandrovsk. St. Petersburg Museum [E. 



Isbes Khan, North of St. Petersburg Museum [E. 



Sir Daria. 



Tschinas, Sir Daria. St. Petersburg Museum 



Lake Alakul. St. Petersburg: Museum 



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yg. Lake Sassyk Kul. Geographical Society of 



Bremen. 

 Lake Sassyk Kul. St. Petersburg JNIuseum 



Tarbagatai Mts. St. Petersburg Museum 



Western Turkestan. M. Severzow [C.]. 



Turkestan. 



20. Eremias argus. 



Eremias argxis, rete7's, Mon. JBerl. Ac. 18(i9, p. 61, pi. — . fig. 3; 



Steindaclm. Sitzh. Ah. Wien, Ixii. 1870, i. p. 336, pi. ii. figs. 1, 2. 

 brenchleyi, Giinth. Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 419, 



and in Brenchln/'s ' Ctiragoa,^ p. 396, pi. xxii. fig. A. 

 Podarces (Eiemias) argus, Strmich, Voy. P?-zctvalski, liept. p. 32. 

 ( ) brenchleyi, Strauch, I. c. p. 30. 



Head short, snout obtuse. Nasals swollen, the lower rarely in 

 contact with the rostral ; frontonasal divided longitudinally, sepa- 

 rated from the rostral ; usually one or two azygos shields between 

 the pair of pra^frontals ; frontal feebly grooved anteriorly ; two 

 large supraoculars, usually with a small one behind ; the space 



