EREMIAS PULCHRA.— Smith. 



Reptilia.— Plate XLVII. Fig. 2. 



E. superne flavo-grisea carneo-tincta, dorso latcribusque maculis parvis fasciisque brunneo-rufis variegatis; 

 squaniis dorsalibus parvis subovalibus in seriebus transversis dispositis ; scutis pre-analibus nume- 

 rosis ; scutis vcntralibus in ordine singulo octo ve decini ; poris fcraoralibus 11 or 12. 



Longitttdo c nasi apice ad anum 2 unc. ; caudae 4£. 



Colour.— The upper parts of the head, the back, the sides superiorly, and 

 the outer surface of the extremities, light broccoli-brown, brightened with 

 flesh-red, and the back and sides variegated with small brownish red spots, 

 and broken brownish red bands. The spots are arranged in two rows along 

 the centre of the back and upper surface of the tail near to its base, many of 

 them being partly brownish red, partly pure white. The bands are two, one 

 on each side, commencing behind each ear-opening, and terminating at the 

 base of the hinder leg, portions of these bands consist of freckles, other por- 

 tions of somewhat circular rings, or quadrangular links, either separate or 

 connected ; the outer surface of the hinder extremities towards body with a 

 few minute brownish red spots. The sides of the head and the under 

 surface of the neck, body, and tail, dead-white. 



Form, &c. — Figure slender, tail much lengthened, and very delicate towards 

 the point; head slender and lengthened, posteriorly of equal width, anterior 

 to eyes tapered ; the nose narrow and slightly rounded ; the sides of head, 

 anterior to eyes, vertical, posterior to eyes, slightly convex. Nasal plates 

 separated by the intervention of a small quadrangular plate ; naso-rostral 

 rhomboidal, the anterior angle rather lengthened, and more acute than either 

 of the other three ; fronto-nasal contiguous ; frontal moderately long, 

 broadest before, and both its anterior and posterior edges semicircular ; fronto- 

 parietal plates contiguous ; parietals subcircular ; interparietal large, five- 

 sided, the two anterior sides meeting anteriorly, and forming an acute angle ; 

 occipital plate small, and placed immediately behind the interparietal ; pal- 

 pebral plates, transversely, subovate, and anteriorly, posteriorly, and exte- 



