EREMIAS LINEO-OCELLATA. 



its anterior extremity ; parietal plates somewhat quadrangular ; palpebral 

 plates two, margined anteriorly, externally, and posteriorly with small 

 granular scales ; lower eyelids with an oval transparent disc, surrounded 

 by small granular scales ; freno-nasal plate small, somewhat five-sided ; 

 freno-ocular plate large and four- sided, the posterior side longer than the 

 anterior ; anti-ocular scales sublinear, keeled, and oblique in relation to the 

 eye. The subocular plate forms part of the upper lip, and the rest of it is 

 composed of seven scales, four before the plate just named, and three behind 

 it ; scales of lower lip six or seven, rather narrow. The external opening 

 of the ear vertical and subovate, without any distinctly projecting scales. 

 The scales of the body and sides superiorly small, imbricate, somewhat 

 triangular, carinated, and disposed in transverse rows. Those of the sides 

 towards belly plain. Scales of the upper and lateral parts of the tail carinated, 

 of the under parts, smooth. Scales of the under surface of the neck, 

 towards the chin, small, ovate, and arranged in oblique rows ; towards the 

 breast, small, somewhat triangular, and slightly imbricate. Antipectoral 

 fold edged with thirteen somewhat quadrangular scales ; plates on chest and 

 belly subquadrangular, and disposed in transverse rows, about twelve in 

 each row, the rows about thirty-three in number ; preanal plates in four rows, 

 the plates of the hindermost row the largest. Scales of upper and outer 

 surface of fore-legs triangular, imbricate, and keeled, below, rhomboidal 

 and plain ; front of legs above toes, covered with rather large plates. 

 Hinder legs, superiorly, coated with small triangular keeled scales, inferiorly, 

 towards toes, with large plates. Femoral pores, thirteen. The longest toe 

 of the fore-feet, when they are placed along the sides of the neck, reaches 

 to the anterior angle of the eye ; the longest of the hinder ones, when 

 applied along the sides, approaches to within a line of the external opening 

 of the ear. 



Length from nose to anus, 2 inches ; length of tail, 4 inches. 



This is not quite so common as the species last described, yet is met with in several parts 

 of the colony. In various respects it resembles Eremias Knoxii, but is without difficulty to 

 be distinguished from it by having a semitransparent disc in the lower eyelid, and also by 

 its preanal plates being very differently arranged. 



