16 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Family LACHRTID^. 



11. EREMIAS YARKANDENSIS. PI. II, fig. 3. 



\V. Blanf. : Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, 1875, xliv, Ft. 2, p. 194. 



E. ceeruleo-ocellata, Andorson : Proc. Zool. Soe., 1872, p. 373, nee Dum. et Bibr. 



? E. mulliocellata,' Giinther : Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1872, Ser. 4, vol. x, p. 419. 



E. gracilis, supra grisea vel olivacea, nigro-maculata, ocellis albidis nigro-marginatis 

 utrinque ad dorsum in seriem longitudinalem dispositis ; stibtus albida ; scuds nasalibus hand 

 twnidis, prcefrontali unico, a rostrali siipranasalibus atque a verticals postfrontalibus lonye 

 disjuncto ; infra-orbitali ad labrum pertinente ; dentibus palatalibus nullis ; scutis ventrali- 

 bus in series longitudinales (potius obliquas) 14-16, et in transversas ad 30 dispositis; poris 

 femoralibus utrinque 9-14; squamis infradigitalibus mx carinatis. Long. 6 poll., ccmdce 3'7. 



1-4, Sanju ; 5-23, Yarkand and Yangihissar ; 24-28, Kashghar ; 29, near Fyzabad, east of Kashghar ; 30-33, 

 Kashkasu, between Yangihissar and Sarikol ; 34-44, Sarikol ; 45-46, west of Sarikol. 



Description. General form rather slender, tail when perfect about one and a half times 

 the length of the head and body, limbs rather short ; the fore limb reaches to between the eye 

 and snout, the hind foot extends to the axil. The nasal scales are not swollen, the lower 

 eyelid is opaque and granular. Scales below the toes very faintly keeled. No palatal teeth. 

 Usual length 5 to 6 inches. A fine specimen, in which only the tip of the tail appears renewed, 

 measures 6'2 inches, of which the tail is 3'8, head 0'6, fore limb 0'8, hind limb T25. 



Scales of the back rounded, arranged in transverse rows, becoming natter and rather 

 larger on the sides. Ventral scales in transverse and oblique rows ; usually 14 to 16 in each 

 transverse row in the middle of the abdomen (very rarely 18) and in 28 to 35 (generally 30 

 or 31) transverse rows. Tail scales not keeled, as a rule, on the anterior portion, though 

 occasionally they are bluntly keeled above ; on the posterior portion they are more or less 

 distinctly keeled throughout. Prseanal scales all small. From 9 to 14 femoral pores beneath 

 each thigh. The enlarged scales below the tarsus extend about two-thirds of the distance 

 across. Scales beneath the feet granular, not keeled. Collar free, the scales towards the 

 middle enlarged, nearly as large as the abdominal plates, but varying in number ; and often 

 passing into small scales at the sides ; usually there are ten to twelve enlarged scales. 



Head shields. Nostrils between three shields, an upper, lower, and posterior nasal, which 

 are not swollen, but merely slightly convex, as are all the other head shields. Prarfrontal single ; 

 the supranasals meet in a broad suture, and so do the postfrontals. Two large supraorbital 

 shields, with granules outside and in front of them, but none inside. Praeoccipitals each 

 about the same size as a postfrontal ; central occipital smaller, but variable in size. Postocci- 

 pitals large, each three or four times the size of a prasoccipital, no azygos shield behind them. 

 Upper labials six, in front of the large supraorbital shield which descends to the lip, its lower 

 margin along the lip being nearly equal to that of the preceding shield. Temples covered 

 with small granular scales. Edge of ear not denticulate. 



Colour. Olive-grey above, spotted with black, and with a more or less well marked line 

 of whitish black-edged ocelli along each side of the back. The dark spots on the back often 



form longitudinal lines. 



This name will have priority if, as is probable, the species are the same, 



