EREMIAS PULCHRA. 



riorly, edged with minute granular scales ; freno-nasal plate small, quadran- 

 gular ; freno-ocular quadrangular, much broader behind than before ; ante- 

 ocular plates small and compressed ; labial plates, anterior to large infra- 

 orbital plate, four, behind it three, horizontally compressed and projecting; 

 plates of lower jaw, exclusive of chin plate, five or six (Vide Plate XLVIII. 

 figs. 1.3, 13 a, and 13 b). Ear-opening vertically subovate, and the membrana 

 tympani visible, being immediately within the orifice. Scales of the back 

 and sides small, ovate, disposed in more or less regular transverse rows, each 

 row slightly removed from the other ; scales of the under surface of the neck, 

 anteriorly, small and subquadrangular, posteriorly, rhomboidal and in both 

 situations imbricate ; antepectoral fold very narrow, and formed of twelve 

 small irregular plates; pectoral and ventral plates quadrangular, and arranged 

 in transverse rows, twelve in the most lengthened of the ventral rows : pre- 

 anal plates rather numerous in four transverse rows. Femoral pores eleven 

 or twelve. Scales of the tail, superiorly, carinated, inferiorly, quadrangular 

 and smooth. Forelegs, when directed forwards along the sides of the neck, 

 have the longest toe of the foot extending slightly in advance of the eye ; 

 hinder legs, when directed along the sides, have the longest toe reaching to 

 the ear-opening. 



Length from nose to anus 2 inches ; of tail 4| inches. 

 Found on dry flats in the interior of Southern Africa. In several respects this species re- 

 sembles Eremias partialis, but is at once to be distinguished from it by its having fourteen or 

 more pre-anal plates, whilst E. partialis has only three. 



