EREMIAS NAMAQUENSIS. 



the suborbital plate, which forms a portion of the lip, and three behind it ; on 

 the right side there are four in front of suborbital plate, and two behind it ; 

 scales of lower lip six ; freno-nasal plate quadrangular, anterior and posterior 

 sides nearly of equal length ; freno-ocular plates four-sided, the hinder side 

 much the longest ; anti-ocular plates small, the uppermost quadrangular, the 

 lowermost linear; ear opening vertical, slightly oviform, and both edges even. 

 Scales of back and upper parts of sides minute, ovate, granular, and disposed 

 in rather waved transverse lines ; the scales of the lower parts of the sides 

 rather larger, flat, and subtriangular : scales of under surface of neck small, 

 ovate, and arranged in transverse bands, those towards chin slightly arched 

 or angular, those towards breast oblique ; ante-pectoral fold margined behind 

 with eight subquadrangular scales, and between these and the scales of the 

 neck, already described, there are three or four transverse rows of subquad- 

 rangular scales, larger than those in front of them. The plates of the first 

 pectoral row are four-sided, long, and transversely narrow ; the rest are, 

 like those of the belly, much smaller, subquadrangular, and disposed in trans- 

 verse rows. The plates about half way between anterior and posterior 

 extremities, generally twelve in each row ; preanal plates in three rows, those 

 of the two hinder rows largest, four in the last, and two in the one before it, 

 also some smaller ones on each side of both, and also behind the last. 

 The fore-legs, inferiorly, towards toes, coated with a longitudinal row of small 

 plates ; anteriorly, with a row of a larger size ; toes slender, the third and 

 fourth equal and longest; the hinder legs inferiorly towards toes, with a lon- 

 gitudinal row of large plates ; thighs anteriorly coated with plates ; scales of 

 upper and lateral parts of tail carinated, of under parts smooth. Femoral 

 pores, fourteen. The point of the fourth toe, when the fore-legs are carried 

 along the sides of the neck, reaches the anterior angle of the eye, and the 

 point of the fourth toe of the hinder extremities, when they are stretched along 

 the sides, reaches the angle of the mouth. 



Length from point of nose to anus, 2 inches ; length of tail, 5g inches. 

 The only specimens of this lizard which I have seen were obtained in Great Namaqualand 



