Eremias. 



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Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent 



,. „ ,, fore liml 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 

 Foot 

 Tail 



1. (?, Oran. 2. 

 6. 9 , Chiodma. 



Habitat. — Sineiitic Peninsula, Lower Egypt (?), Tunisia, Algeria 

 (Sahara and Province Orau), Moi'occo (between Mogador and Morocco 

 and Plateau of Chiodma), Rio de Oro, south of Moi'occo. In only a 

 few localities (Sinaitic Peninsula, Tunisia, Algerian Sahara) does this 

 variety aj^pear to occur alongside with the typical form. 



2. 9, Oran. 3. 



Var. MAETINI. 



Eremias martini, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. ISf. H. (6) xix, 1897, p. 467. 



Eremias gutiulata, part., Anders. Faun. Egypt, Eept. p. 174, 

 pi. xxiii, fig. 4 (1898). 



Eremias guttulata martini, O. Neumann, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii, 

 1905, p. 396. 



Eremias guttulata, var. martlnl,'Bon]eiig. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, 

 p. 9. 



The specimens from the borders of the Red Sea agree very nearly 

 with the var. ollvierl in the shape of the snout and in the semi- 

 transparent palpebral disc composed of 4 to 6 pieces, but they are 

 remarkable for the low numlier of scales across the body (32 to 38) 

 and they are more handsomely striated than is the rule in the typical 

 form and the var. ollvierl. They deserve to be distinguished as a 

 variety. 



The hind limb reaches the shoulder or the collar in males, the axil 

 or the shoulder in females. 



In the type specimen, from Obok, the ventral plates are in 8 longi- 

 tudinal series, all the other specimens examined having 10 ; the 

 transverse series are 26 to 34 in number. 



10 to 14 femoral pores on each side. 



Qvey or pale brown above, with two or three dark streaks on each 



