EREMIAS LUGUBRIS.— Dum. et Bib. 



Reptilia. — Plate XLVI. Fig. 2. 



E. superne nigro brunnea, lineis flavis continuis interruptisve tribu9 variegatis ; scutis nasalibus contiguis ; 

 scutis magnis supra oculos squamis parvis granulosis circumdatis; scutis ventralibus in ordine 

 transverso sex ; poris femoralibus sexdecim. 



Longitudo e nasi apice ad anum 2 unc. ; cauda? 5 unc. 



Lacerta lugubris, Smith, Mag. of Zool. and Bot. (New Series) vol. ii. p. 93. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head yellowish brown shaded with 

 brownish red, the sides cream-yellow. The back and sides of the body liver- 

 brown, variegated with longitudinal stripes and spots of gamboge-yellow. 

 The stripes, three or five in number, commence at the posterior part of the 

 head, and three of them extend some distance beyond the origin of the tail ; 

 the remaining two, which are generally very indistinct, exist one on each side 

 near to the abdominal plates, and are only visible between the anterior and 

 posterior extremities. The spots, near to the head, are disposed in the form of 

 bands, one between each two longitudinal stripes. Between the ear and the 

 base of each anterior extremity, a waved yellow line exists, and a similar one 

 extends between the eye and the hindhead, its termination being immediately 

 over the commencement of the upper line of the side. The outer surface of 

 the extremities brownish red, clouded with liver-brown, and finely freckled 

 with lemon-yellow. The under surface of the head, the body, the tail, and 

 the inner surface of the extremities, yellowish white ; upper surface of tail, 

 yellowish brown. Eyes, deep chestnut-brown. 



The above are the colours of the specimen figured, but it may not fall to 

 the lot of another person to obtain one exactly like it. I am not acquainted 

 with any lizard which varies so greatly in regard of colour ; some specimens 

 are obtained almost entirely black, with three yellow lines, others with the 

 lines broken into linear spots, and others again with the sides and back, yel- 

 lowish brown, variegated with lines either yellow or light buff-orange. 



Form, &c. — Body moderately robust, and subcylindrical, tail much length- 

 ened, and very slender towards and at the point ; head somewhat four-sided, 

 only slightly depressed, the sides posteriorly slightly convex ; nose narrow 

 and rounded. Nasal plates contiguous ; naso-rostral somewhat rhomboidal, 

 and more pointed behind than before ; fronto-nasal contiguous ; frontal long, 

 broadest anteriorly, and arched where it is in contact with the fronto-nasal 

 plates ; fronto-parietal, rather small, rhomboidal, and with a granule on its 



