EREMIAS LATICEPS.-Smith. 



Reptilia. — Plate XLVI. Fig. 1. 



E. superne flavo-brunnea, lineis quinque, loiigitudinalibus, subflavis, variegatis, linea media antice bifur- 

 cata ; scutis nasalibus disjunctis ; scutis ventralibus in ordine trans verso sexdecim ; poris femoralibus 

 tredecim. 



Lo.ngitudo e nasi apice ad anum 2 unc. ; caudte 3 unc. 3 lin. 



Colour. — The upper and lateral surfaces of the head intermediate between 

 reddish orange and yellowish brown. The ground colour of the back, the sides 

 of the body, and the outer surface of the extremities intermediate between 

 brownish red and chestnut-brown, and variegated with light yellowish brown, 

 either as longitudinal stripes or small spots. The stripes, when they exist, 

 are three distinct, and two indistinct, the latter low on the sides, and extend- 

 ing between the fore and hinder legs, the others are, one along the centre of 

 the back, and one towards the middle of each side. These three commence 

 close to the hindhead, and terminate a little beyond the origin of the tail ; the 

 middle stripe is forked towards its anterior extremity, and between its limbs 

 there exists a short stripe of the colour of the more lengthened ones. The 

 bands of spots exist only on the body towards the head, and are one between 

 every two of the longitudinal stripes, the spots are very small, and not dis- 

 posed in any regular order. The outer surface of each extremity is also 

 variegated with a band of spots of a similar character. The belly, the 

 inner surface of the extremities, and the under surfaces of the head and 

 the tail, yellowish white ; the upper surface of the tail and the feet yellowish 

 brown. 



Form, &c. — Figure rather slender; tail moderately long and very slender 

 at the point. Head rather depressed, broad posteriorly, narrow and tapered 

 in front of the eyes; the snout rather short ; supraorbital space prominent 

 and convex ; sides of the head anteriorly nearly vertical, posteriorly slightly 

 convex ; ear-opening narrow and vertically subovate ; membrana tympani close 

 to orifice ; nasal plates separated by the intervention of the anterior portion 

 of the naso-rostral plate, the latter rather large, nearly pointed anteriorly, 

 broad and arched posteriorly ; fronto-nasal separated from each other by a 

 small quadrangular plate ; frontal plate long and broadest anteriorly, where 

 it is of a triangular shape; fronto-parietals contiguous ; inter-parietal large 

 and somewhat rhomboidal ; occipital narrow, anteriorly broad, posteriorly 

 arched ; palpebral plates rather small and margined anteriorly, posteriorly, 

 and externally with small granular scales. Plates of upper lip, in front of 

 large suborbital plate five, behind it four ; plates of lower lip seven ; freno- 

 nasal plate small, quadrangular, rather longer than deep ; freno-ocular plate 

 large and subtriangular ; anteocular plates two, the anterioimost much the 



