1896. | LIZARDS OF THE GENUS EREMIAS. 925 
Adult sandy grey or buff above, with brick-red or black and red 
dots; tail uniform or spotted with bluish grey and black; lower 
parts white. Young with five grey longitudinal streaks, which ~ 
may be broken up by round whitish spots. 
Gin Ore 
millim. millim. 
Totallemebh ).chohs aphhiet smyeroeee-ciaie wtatales 182 145 
TER aud iin ya eats eine oy pees carat eetens 15 ey 
Wid no tyhesciers aceasta alto Ueas 9 a 
From end of snout to fore limb ...... 21 18 
iy sy re Velie eape Yt hcieraaei 52 47 
Bones lini aaeedate natal eon eee eer ae 20 18 
Ceti cli plintiby. svete, Sts asos aevatous estou caateve 41 38 
Pa AD ee grins of Sasi erated axe pT IST ey 130 98 
This species has only been obtained once, in numerous specimens, 
in Somaliland, on the route from Obbia to Berbera, by the Italian 
traveller Robecchi. 
3 ERpMIAs sMITHI. (Fig. 3.) 
Eremias smitht, Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 534, 
pl. xxix. fig. 4. x 
Fig. 3. 
Eremias smithi. 
Head once and a half or once and_ three-fifths as longas broad. 
Upper head-shields rugose, sculptured and pitted, but not striated ; 
frontonasal as long as broad; three large supraoculars, first in 
contact with second or separate, the second and third forming 
together an oval disk surrounded with granules which here and 
there may be in two rows; interparietal usually separated from 
the occipital by one or two small shields ; an elongate shield on 
