EREMIAS UNDATA. 



broad anteriorly, and somewhat club-shaped ; interparietal plate rounded 

 anteriorly, truncated posteriorly, and much wider before than behind ; pal- 

 pebral plates two, sometimes three, the middle one then rudimentary, the shield 

 formed by the whole is edged anteriorly, posteriorly, and externally, with a 

 band of small subgranular scales ; occipital plate small, and of an irregular 

 shape ; frenal plate, quadrangular ; anti-ocular plate large, quadrangular, and 

 deeper behind than in front ; upper labial plates six ; the hinder-most irre- 

 gular, lengthened, and forms a part of the angle of the mouth. Lower eyelid 

 with two transparent plates, forming a disc near its centre, the hinder- 

 most smallest, elsewhere it is coated with small granular scales. Opening 

 to ear, vertical, subovate, and, anteriorly, margined with four or five small 

 projecting scales ; antepectoral fold distinct, its hinder edge throughout free 

 and margined with about fourteen small plates. Breast and belly with 

 oblique rows of subquadrangular plates, from ten to twelve in each row ; 

 guttural plates small, ovate, and disposed in oblique rows ; preanal plates 

 in four transverse rows, five or six in the last and two in the first row. Fore 

 legs, anteriorly, superiorly, and posteriorly, coated with irregularly triangular 

 imbricate scales, a few near the toes carinated ; inferiorly with small granu- 

 lar ones ; hinder legs superiorly and posteriorly covered with small granular 

 scales ; anteriorly and inferiorly with rather large, subtriangular, imbricate 

 scales : the tarsi superiorly also with small similarly shaped scales, all of 

 which are strongly keeled. Toes, very slender ; claws, slightly curved and 

 pointed. The longest toe, when the fore legs are placed along the side of the 

 head, reaches exactly to the point of the nose, and the longest of the hinder 

 feet, when the legs are placed along the side, touches the angle of the mouth. 

 Femoral pores about thirteen. 



Length from point of nose to anus, 2 inches ; length of tail, 3 inches. 

 Inhabits the arid sandy flats between Cape Town and Little Namaqualand. 



