304 



Lacertiche, 



Length of Lead 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb . 

 Hiud liuib . 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 



1. J , Karoo flats, type. 2. c^ , E Distr. of Cape Colony. 3. ?, 



Karoo ? 



Farticulars of Specimens Exaia'med. 



S Karoo flats (type) 



2 ,• (?; ■ • 



(7 E. Distr. of Cape Colony 



50 69 14 29 11 26 12-] 3 28 6-5 



Habitat. — " Karoo flats, on the South- West Coast of Africa, 

 particularly Little Namaqualaud, towards the Great Orange Eiver " 

 (Smith). Mr. J. P. M. Weale obtained specimens in the Eastern 

 district of Cape Colony. There are further records from Clanwilliam 

 and the Middleburg district of Cape Colony, Matjesfonteiu and 

 Graaff-Eeinet. 



21. EREMIAS CAPENSIS. 



Lacerta capensis, A. Smith, Mag. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 93. 



Eremias capensis, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 302 (1839) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Liz. p. 40 (1845); A. Smith, 111. ZooL S. Afr., Kept. ijl. xlv, 

 •fig. 2, and pi. xlviii, fig. 7 (1845) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, 

 p. 114; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 9G (1887); Hewitt, Ann. Transv. 

 Mus. ii, 1910, p. 110; Sternf. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. v, 1911, p. 406 ; 

 Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 6. 



Eremias laticeps, A. Smith, 111. pi. \lvi, fig. 1, and pi. xlviii, 

 fig. 3. 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head about If times as long 

 as broad, its length 3| to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4|- 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of 

 the eye and tlie tympanum ; snout ather obtuse, with the nasal 

 shields strongly swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head. 



