EREMIAS FORMOSA.— Smith. 



Reptilia. — Plate XLVII. Fig. 3. 



E. superne flavo-brunnea fasciis quatuor longitudinalibus varicgatis, quarura duabus nigro-brunneis, duabus 

 pallide flavis ; corporis lateribus flavo-brunneis nigro-brunneo umbratis et annulis nigro brunneis 

 maculisque subflavia notatis ; dorsi squamis parvis, subrliomboidalibus, imbricatis ; palpebra inferiorc 

 pellucida ; cauda inferne versus apicein bicarinata. 



Longitudo e nasi apice ad anum 1 unc. .9 Iin. ; caudop. 3 unc. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head and the middle of the back inter- 

 mediate between yellowish brown and buff-orange, which colour is bounded 

 on each side by two longitudinal bands extending between the hindhead and 

 the base of the tail, the outer band narrow, of a light straw-yellow colour and in 

 some specimens interrupted, the inner band considerably wider, continuous, 

 and of a deep liver-brown hue. Sides of the body dull yellowish brown, 

 freckled with liver-brown, and variegated with a few dark liver-brown rings 

 surrounding light straw-yellow spots. Legs, anteriorly and superiorly, yel- 

 lowish brown, tinged with purple, and variegated with a few small oblong 

 straw-yellow and liver-brown spots. Tail, superiorly, the same colour as the 

 legs, and variegated for some distance from its base, on each side, with a 

 row of small, quadrangular, straw-yellow spots, all of which, but more espe- 

 cially those nearest to the back, margined more or less with liver-brown. 

 The under parts of the head, body, tail, and extremities, dull bluish white. 



Form, &c. — Body rather robust ; tail long and tapered to a fine point ; 

 head rather short, broad posteriorly, rather narrow and tapered anterior to 

 the eyes ; nose slightly rounded ; sides of head before the eyes perpendicular, 

 behind them rather convex. Nasal plates contiguous ; naso-rostral plate 

 large and subrhomboidal, anteriorly, nearly truncated ; fronto-nasal plates 

 contiguous, six-sided, the anterior and outer side very short ; frontal plate 

 lengthened, five-sided, widest anteriorly, and in front terminates in an ob- 

 tuse angle ; fronto-parietals contiguous ; occipital four-sided, the posterior 

 side more lengthened than the anterior and slightly arched ; palpebral plates 

 somewhat pyriform, and surrounded externally, anteriorly, and posteriorly, 



