Eremias. 



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Habitat. — Origiually described from Great Namaqualand, this 

 species is now knowu to liave a wide distribution, extending 

 northward to Damaraland and southward to Bechuaualand and over 

 the greater part of Cape Colony. 



16. EEEMIAS UNDATA. 



Lacerta inidata, A. Smith, Mag. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 42. 



Eremias nndata, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 42 (1845) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. 

 iii, p. 92 (1887), and Ann. S. At'r. Mus. v, 1910, p. 477; Werner, 

 Jena. Denkschr. xvi, 1910, p 331 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Kes. iii, 

 1918, p. 5. 



Eremias nndata, part., A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Eept. (1845). 



Eremias hencjuelensis, part., Bocage, Joru. Sc. Lisb. i, 1867, p. 229. 



Eremias namaqvensis, part., Bocage, Herp. Angola, p. 31 (1895). 



Eremias inornata, Roux, Zool. .Tahrb., Syst. xx, 1907, p. 427, pi. xv, 

 figs. 1-3 ; Hewitt, Ann. Transv. Mus. ii, 1910, p. 109, and iii, 1911, 

 p. 48; Methuen & Hewitt, op. cit. iv, 1914, p. 138, figs.; Hewitt & 

 Power, Tr. E. Soc. S. Afr. iii, 1918, p. 156. 



Eremias nndata, var. inornata, Sternf. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. v, 

 1911, p. 404. 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head If to If times as 

 long as broad, its length 3-J to 4 times in length to vent, its depth 

 equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; 



