EREMIAS ANNULIFERA. 



large infra-orbital plate, five, behind it four, all small and unlike those in 

 front ; plates of lower lip, not including that of chin, six ; the disc of the 

 lower eyelid consists of two pellucid plates. Ear-opening ovate, with the 

 membrana tympani visible close to its orifice. Scales of back and sides small, 

 subquadrangular, and disposed in regular transverse rows, slightly bending 

 at the centre of the back ; scales of the under surface of the neck small, 

 subovate, and imbricate ; antepectoral fold slender, and with ten small 

 quadrangular plates, the centre one much the largest, those at the extremities 

 very small. Pectoral plates small, quadrangular, and arranged in broken 

 rows, those of belly larger, quadrangular, and ten in the longest rows. Pre- 

 anal plates about twelve in number, three large in the last row, and a very 

 small one at each extremity; femoral pores fourteen. Scales of upper and 

 lateral parts of tail slightly carinated, of under parts smooth. When the 

 fore-leg is placed along the side of the neck, the longest toe reaches to the 

 point of the nose, and when the hinder leg is stretched along the side, the 

 longest toe reaches to the external ear. 



Length from the tip of the nose to the anus If inch, of the tail 3£ inches. 



Inhabits the interior of Southern Africa towards the tropic of Capricorn. The only two spe- 

 cies to which it bears, from certain details in its colouring, some faint resemblance, are cer- 

 tain varieties of E. Knoxii and lineo-ocellata. Its having a transparent disc to the lower 

 eyelid, forms a character which at once bespeaks it as different from the first, and having flat 

 instead of carinated scales, establishes it as different from the latter. 



