1872.] HIMALAYAN, AND OTHKR REPTILES. 373 



across the ear below the hindermost temporal. An area of moderately 

 large and small scales between the temporals and upper labials. 

 Two loreals, the posterior one the larger. Seven upper labials, 

 the one below the eye much larger than the others. Seven lower 

 labials. Ear vertically oval. Four pairs of large shields behind the 

 mental, increasing in size from before backwards, the posterior pair 

 about four times the size of the anterior one. The fold, from ear to 

 ear, not prominent. The anterior margin of the neck-fold with ten 

 large scales from side to side. 



Dark greenish olive- brown above, with five fine bluish-green 

 narrow longitudinal lines from the head to the base of the tail — one 

 from the ear along the side, another from above the ear over the 

 former, and the third from the postoccipital along the middle of the 

 back: the area between these spotted with blackish. Under surface 

 rich green, yellowish about the anal region. 



Snout to vent 2 T 4 ^" ; vent to top of tail 4-^" ; anterior extre- 

 mity T V', posterior extremity ly^" ; fourth toe j-\" ; snout to post- 

 occipital (hinder margin) £f ". 



Hab. Shiraz, Persia. Two specimens. 



Dumerii and Bibron regard this species as a variety of L. viridis ; 

 and in this they are followed by Prof. Filippi, who records it from 

 Tiflis and Senkoran. 



Eremias c.ertjleo-ocellata, D. & Bib. Erpet. Generale, vol. v. 

 pp. 295, 296. 



Head much pointed ; tail not enlarged at the base, long and 

 slender. Frontal obliquely quadrangular, with an angle in the middle 

 line before and behind, entire or longitudinally divided in two, in 

 contact with two of the nasals, anterior loreal, and the postfrontals. 

 Postfrontals hexagonal, forming a small suture together. A^ertical 

 hastate, lateral margins concave, convergent. Preoccipitals tri- 

 angular, with the small wedge-like occipital indenting their line of 

 union posteriorly. . Exoccipitals large, subquadrangular, narrower 

 before than behind. A line of six small linear granuloid scales along 

 their external margin. Temporal region granular. Two large su- 

 praciliaries, together forming an oval surface. Two or four small 

 scales before them, with two rows of small granules along their ex- 

 ternal border. Anterior loreal small, quadrangular ; posterior large, 

 subquadrangular. Five linear scales along the ridge of the eye, the 

 anterior one very much longer than the others. Two small scales 

 above and behind the posterior angle of the eye. Ten to eleven 

 upper labials, exclusive of the inferior orbital plate, which has two 

 small rounded scales behind it ; seven to eight lower labials ; five 

 pairs of large plates below them, the first and last pairs the smallest. 

 A fold across the throat from ear to ear. The prevesical fold 

 with three rather large scales in its middle. Dorsal scales mi- 

 nute, smooth, ovally rhomboidal, arranged more or less in transverse 

 rows, with a minute granule between each scale posteriorly. Scales 

 of tail oblong, arranged in verticils. Scales on front of thighs and 

 under surface of tibialportion of leg very large, hexagonal. Either 



