EREMIAS BURCHELLII. 



terior angle acute, the others slightly truncated ; fronto-nasal separated 

 from each other by the intervention of a small subquadrangular plate ; 

 frontal lengthened, and broadest at its anterior extremity, its margin ante- 

 riorly truncated ; fronto-parietal plates contiguous, and irregularly four-sided ; 

 inter-parietal large, four-sided, anteriorly triangular, posteriorly truncated. 

 Occipital plate, small and subovate ; palpebral plates, two, forming an oval 

 disc, which exteriorly, anteriorly, and posteriorly, is edged with small gra- 

 nular scales ; freno-nasal, small and quadrangular ; freno-ocular, larger, 

 somewhat triangular, the anterior angle slightly truncated ; ante-ocular scales 

 very small, the anteriormost the largest ; plates of upper lip, in front of large 

 infra-orbital plate, four, posterior to it three ; of lower lip, seven or eight, 

 exclusive of the chin plate, vide Plate XLVIII. Figs. 4 and A a. Ear-open- 

 ing large, vertically subovate, its edges are smooth, and two scales larger 

 than the others are observed anteriorly, close to its upper extremity. 

 Scales of back and upper parts of sides small, nearly circular, and placed 

 like stones in a pavement ; scales of under surface of neck, small, subovate, 

 or subcircular, flat and slightly imbricate ; plates edging, ante-pectoral fold 

 quadrangular, and about ten in number. The first and second rows of pec- 

 toral plates are oblong and quadrangular, the remainder smaller, less 

 lengthened, and not disposed in such regular rows ; plates of belly, in 

 rows which extend almost directly across, fourteen plates in each of the 

 longest rows ; pre-anal plates in several rows, five plates in each of the two 

 middle ones ; femoral pores, twelve or thirteen. Scales of the upper and 

 lateral parts of the tail carinated, of the under parts smooth, quadrangular, 

 and those towards its base narrowest posteriorly ; scales of fore legs, towards 

 body, small, smooth, and imbricate, anteriorly, towards toes, large and 

 quadrangular ; scales of hinder legs small, and somewhat circular, and, an- 

 teriorly towards body, and inferiorly towards toes, a covering of rather large 

 plates, which, in the first-mentioned position, are disposed in a regular and 

 longitudinal row. Under eyelid coated externally with a number of small 

 semi-pellucid plates. When the anterior extremities are extended along the 

 sides of the neck, the point of the longest toe reaches exactly to the point of 

 the nose, and when the hinder ones are applied along the sides, the point of 

 the longest toe reaches to the base of the fore leg. 



Length from the point of the nose to the vent 2 inches 3 lines, length of the tail 4 inches 3 lines. 



Inhabits the Karoo flats, on the south-west coast of Africa, particularly Little Namaqualand, 

 towards the Great Orange River. It is wild, extremely watchful, and moves from place to place 

 with great rapidity. 



