244 Lacertidce. 



5. EEEMIAS MUCRONATA. 



Acanthodactylus mucronatus, Blanf. Zool. Abyss, p. 453, fig. 

 (1870). 



Eremias mncronata, Griiutli. Zool. Rec. 1870, p. 71 ; Bouleug. Ann. 

 Mus. Geneva (2) xii, 1891, p. 9, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 921, tig. ; 

 Anders. Zool. Egypt, Eept. p. 169, pi. xxiii, figs. 1 and 2 (1898) ; Steiud. 

 Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixix, 1901, p. 330 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 

 1918, p. 4. 



Eremias luguhris (uon A. Smith), Vaill. Miss. Revoil Pays Comalis, 

 Rept. p. 23 (1882). 



Pseud eremias lineolata, Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii, 1883, p. 118. 



Boulencjeria mncronata, Lataste, Ann. Mus. Geuova (2) ii, 1885, 

 p. 117. 



Eremias hrenneri, part., Bovileng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 86 (1887). 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head 1^ to 1^ times as long as 

 broad, its length 3^ to 4 times in length to vent in males, 34 to 4^ 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior 

 corner or the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout acutely 

 pointed, li times as long as the postocular part of the head, nasals 

 not or but feebly swollen, canthus sharp, loreal region feebly concave ; 

 a well-marked concavity on the upper surface of the snout, extending 

 along the frontal shield. Pileus 2 to 2;\ times as long as broad. 

 Neck as broad as the head or a little constricted. Hind limb reaching 

 the eye or between the eye and the nostril in males, the eye or between 

 the ear and the eye in females; fool 1.^ to If times as long as the 

 head ; toes slender, strongly compressed. Tail 2 to 3 times as long as 

 head and body. 



Upper head-shields fiat, smooth, sometimes a little rugose and 

 pitted. Nasals in contact liehind the rostral, the suture between them 

 \ to T^ the length of the frontonasal, which is as long as broad or a 

 little longer than broad ; prefrontals longer than broad, forming a 

 suture in tho middle; frontal shorter tlian its distance from the end 

 of the snout, 1] to 2', times as long as broad, narrow behinil, 

 separated from the supraocvdars by a series of small scales, the series 

 rarely double in front ; parietals as long as broad 'or l)road(!r than 

 long, not longer than the frontojiarietals ; interparietal small, st^parated 

 from the small occipital by one shield, rarely by two. 'J'hrce supra- 

 oculars, in contact witli each other, first as long as or shorter than the 

 second and occasionally more or less divided ; 6 oi' 7, rarely 5 or 8, 

 superciliaiies, first longest, separated from tiie second and thii'd 



