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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 

 ? Khara-Moritt'- . . . .75 54 18 35 12 34 12-13 21 6 



Hgr. Ordos Desert 



? Chine.ge Turkestan, P.M. 

 Habitat. — -Chinese Turkestan and Mongolia, from Lob Nor to Ordos. 



30. EEEMIAS MULTIOCELLATA. 



Eremias multiocellata, Griintli. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) x, 1872, 

 p. 419, and in Breuchley, " Curacoa," Eept. p. 400 (1873) ; Bouleng. 

 Cat. Liz. iii, p. 103 (1887) ; JSTikolskv, Fedtschenko's Eeise, Zool. ii, 

 pt. vii, p. 37 (1899), and Herp. Eoss. p. 169 (1905) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. 

 Ees. Przewalski Eeis., Ampli. Eept. p. 578 (1912) ; Bouleng. Joiiru. 

 Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 8. 



Eremias ceeruleo-ocellata (non D. & B.), Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1872, p. 373. 



Eremias yarlcandensis, Blanf. Jouvn. As. See. Beng. xliv, 1875, p. 194, 

 and 2ud Yarkand Miss., Eept. p. 16, pi. ii, fig. 3 (1878). 



Eremias yarlcandensis, var. saturata, Blanf. 11. cc. fig. 4. 



Podarces {Eremias) multiocellata, Straucli, Yoy. Przewalski, Eept. 

 p. 26 (1876). 



Podarces {Eremias) jjlaniceps, Straucli, op. cit. p. 39, pi. iv, fig. 3. 



Eremias multiocellata, var. hoslowi, Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Zool. 

 St. Pc'tersb. x, 1907, p. 183, and op. cit. p. 588, pi. viii, fig. 8. 



? Eremias huechiieri, Bedriaga, 11. cc. pp. 184, 600, pi. viii, fig. 1. 



Habit rather stout or moderately slender, body moderately depressed. 

 Head more or less depressed, 1^ to I5 times as long as broad, its 

 length 3f to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4|- times in 

 females, its depth equal to tlie distance between the anterior corner 

 or the centre of tlie eye and the tympanum ; snout pointed, nasals not 

 or scarcely swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head, without 

 or with a very feeble concavity above ; canthus rostralis rather obtuse, 

 loreal region feebly concave. Pileus If to 2 times as long as broad. 

 Neck as broad as the head or a little narrower. Hind limb reaching 

 the axil, the shoulder, or the collar in males, the elbow, the axil, or 

 the shoulder in females ; foot as long as the head or a little longer (1^- 

 to 1^ times) ; toes feebly compressed, rather short or moderately 

 elongate. Tail only a trifle longer than head and body, or nearly 

 twice as long. 



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

 rostral, the suture between them } to {- the length of the frontonasal. 



