EREMIAS LIN EO-OCELLATA— Smith. 



Reptilia.— Plate XLIII. Fig. 2. 



E. superne rubro-aurantia lineis longitudinalibus quatuor nigro-brunneis notata ; lineis, maculis 

 circularibus albis signatis ; portione ovale palpebral inferioris semipellucida ; scutis ventralibus 

 duodecim in ordine transversa. 



Longitddo e nasi apice. ad basin caudas 2 unc ; caudse 4 unc. 



Colour. — The head, superiorly, the back, and the upper parts of the 

 sides, reddish orange, variegated with four longitudinal liver-brown lines, in 

 each of which is enclosed, more or less completely, a series or row of small 

 white spots. The two dorsal lines are generally the darkest and best 

 defined ; the lateral ones in some individuals are continuous, but in the 

 majority consist only of a congeries of irregular spots or dark freckles, which 

 form a dark mottled line in which the light spots are more or less imbedded. 

 The two middle lines commence close to the hinder angle of the eyes, and 

 terminate a little beyond the base of the tail, the lower arises from the 

 angle of the mouth, passes across the upper extremity of the meatus auditorius 

 extermis, and terminates at the base of the hinder extremity ; below this 

 dark line is margined with a narrow one of a clear white colour. The head 

 above is sparingly dotted with liver-brown ; the legs superiorly are of the 

 same colour as the back, and freckled with liver-brown ; the under parts of 

 the neck, body, extremities, and tail, yellowish white. Tail above, light 

 reddish orange, with a few liver-brown dots towards its base disposed in 

 two rows. 



Form, &c. — Body moderately robust, tail slender and finely tapered to the 

 point. Head, anteriorly, tapered, the snout slightly obtuse ; the plates of 

 upper surface of head uneven and slightly rugose ; nasal plates small and 

 contiguous, naso-rostral plate somewhat rhomboidal or subtriangular ; fronto- 

 nasal five-sided, inner sides in contact ; frontal plate club-shaped and furrowed 

 longitudinally along its centre from nearly the base to the apex ; fronto- 

 parietal plates five-sided and contiguous ; interparietal plate subrhomboidal, 

 the two anterior sides short, and the greatest width of the plate is towards 



