318 Lacertidie. 



Grevisli yellow above, with 7 lougit iidinal series of small dark 

 browu spots dotted with yellow ; hind limb with large rouud yellowish 

 spots. Lower parts yellowish white. 



Measm-ements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent . . . &() 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 

 Foot . 

 Tail 



16-5 

 10-5 



9 



24-5 



36-5 



18-5 



125 



The aljove is an abstract of Bedriaga's description of a single male 

 specimen from Shiniljad, Eussiau Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. 



Distinguished from E. nilcolsldi by the broader rostral extensively in 

 contact with the lower nasal. 



26. EEEMIAS FASCIATA. 



Eremias fasciata, Blanf. Ann. & Mag. IST.H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 32, 

 and Zool. E. Pei-s. p. 374, pL xxv, fig. 3 (1876) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. 

 iii, p. 99 (1887), and Faun. Ind., Eept. p. 179 (1890) ; Nikolsky, Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. ii, 1897, p. 25, Herp. Eoss. p. 155 (1905), 

 and Heip. Caucas, p, 99 (1913) ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, 

 p. 7. 



Podarces {Eremias) fasciata, Strauch, A-^oy. Przewalski, Eept. p. 26 

 (1876). 



Head and Ijody rather strongly depressed, linabs slender. Head 

 \\ to 14 times as long as broad, its length oj to 4^ times in length to 

 vent, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and 

 the tympanum ; snout pointed, with the nasals swollen, as long as the 

 postocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis obtuse, loreal region 

 feebly concave. Pileus 1| to 2 times as long as broad. Hind limb 

 reaching the ear in males, the shoulder, the collar, or between the collar 

 and the ear in females;, foot Ij to 1| times the length of the head ; 

 toes slender, not compressed, very feebly but distinctly denticulate 

 laterallv. Tail 1;} to 2 times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields flat, smooth ; nasals in contact behind the rostral, 

 the suture between them ^ to ^ the length of the frontonasal, which is 



