316 LacerfidR'. 



Scales gi-auular, smooth, 63 across the middle <»f the ]»ody. Ventral 

 plates as lout? as broad c>r longer than l)road, in 14 oblique longi- 

 tudinal and 31 transverse series. Preanal region covered with small 

 irregular 2:)lates. 



Upper surface of arm with small smooth scales. Scales on upper 

 surface of tibia similar to dorsals ; lower surface Avitli one row of 

 large and one of small plates. 17 femoral pores on eacli side, the two 

 series narrowly separated in the middle. 



Basal upper caudals obtusely teeled, lower smooth. 

 Brown above, with 9 longitudinal series of small dark spots, the 

 outer on the limit of the ventral region ; the dorsolateral series formed 

 of larger, squarish spots, light-edged on each side; hind liml>s with 

 light, dark-edged spots. Lower parts yellowisli white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent .... 65 

 Length of head . « ■ .14 



Width of head 9 



Depth of head .... 7 



Fore limb 21 



Hind limb . . 32 

 Foot 15 



This species is established on a single female specimen "from Tengu- 

 Bar, Southern Alai, Eussiau Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. The above account is compiled from Bedriaga's descrip- 

 tion and figure. 



E. nilcoUhU. is regarded by its <lescriber as connecting E. velox witli 

 E. multiocellata . but differing from V)oth by tlie broader rostral* ; in 

 the narrow separation of the series of femoral pores it is easily 

 distinguished from the latter species. But I cannot help feeling 

 doubtful as to the validity of the species, which may be founded on 

 an aberrant specimen of E. velox. 



25. EREMIAS KEGELI. 



Eremias regeli, Bedriaga, in Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 479 (1905), 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. x, 1907, p. 235, and Wiss. Res. 

 Przewalski Reis., Amph. Rept. p. 544, \>\. viii. fig. 2 (1912) ; 

 Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 7. 



Head and body moderately depressed. Head a little more than 1^ 



* Its lower J)ordt'r loiii^or tluin tlie spaco botwceii tlie first large supraocular 

 and the anterior lorcal (prepalpobral space of Bedriaga). 



