234 Lacertidfe. 



Particulars of Specimen Examined. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. St. 

 $ Garamba . . . . 57 61 6 27 8 42 18 23 5 



Habitat. — Uelle Proviuee of the Belgiau Congo. 



2. EREMIAS QUADRINASALIS. 



Eremias quadrinasalis, Cliabau. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1918, p. 108. 



Head and hoily moderately depressed. Head If times as long- as 

 broad, its length a little more than 4 times in length to vent ; snout 

 obtuse, with very feebly marked canthus ; nasals not swollen ; a rather 

 deep concavity on the upper surface of the snout and along the frontal 

 shieW. Hind limb hardly reaching the collar; foot a little longer than 

 the head ; toes moderately compi-essed. 



Upper head-shields fiat, smooth. Nasals in contact behind the 

 rostral ; frontonasal much broader than long ; frontal a little longer 

 than its distance from the rostral ; parietals longer than broad ; inter- 

 parietal twice as long as broad, f the length of the suture between the 

 fi'ontoparietals ; occipital very small, separated from the interparietal 

 by the parietals meeting on the median line. Two large supraoculars, 

 preceded by 2 and followed l)y 3 or 4 small shields ; 7 superciliaries, 

 first and second largest ; a series of granules between the supraoculars 

 and the superciliaries. Nostril between 4 nasals : an upper, an anterior, 

 a lower, and a posterior, the lower just touching the rostral and 

 resting on the first upper labial ; 5 upper labials anterior to the sub- 

 ocular, which borders the mouth. A long and narrow anterior 

 temporal, followed by two small shields ; temporal scales small, 

 granular. Lower eyelid opuipie, scaly. 



4 pairs of chin-shields, only the first in contact in the middle ; 

 a feeble gular fold. Collar feebly curved, free, composed of 8 plates. 



Scales juxtaposed, keeled, larger towards the ventral plates, 65 to 

 68 across middle of l)ody. Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal and 28 

 transverse series. A large preanal, preceded by 2 smaller plates. 



Scales on upper surface of tibia a little larger than dorsals. 14 

 femoral pores on each side. Subdigital lamellae bicarinate, 26 under 

 tiie fourth toe. 



Pale lirown above, reddish on the tail; a blackish vertebral band, 

 from the occiput to the lumbar region ; a black streak on each side of 

 it on the nape ; sides blackish, spotted with lighter, with two light 

 streaks, the upper from the eye to the inguinal regii>n. tlie lower from 



