1896.] LIZAUUS OF THE GENUS EBBMIAS. 925 



Adult sandy grey or buff above, wiUi brick-red or black and red 

 dots ; tail uniform or spotted with bluish grey and black ; lower 

 parts white. Toung with five grey longitudinal streaks, which 

 may be broken up by round whitish spots. 



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millini. millim. 



Total length 182 14.5 



Head 15 13 



Width of head 9 7 



From end of snout to fore limb 21 18 



„ „ „ Tent 52 47 



Fore limb 20 18 



Hind limb 41 38 



Tail 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 Kobecchi. 



3 Eeemias smitiii. (Fig. 3.) 



Eremias smithi, Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 534, 

 pi. xxix. fig. 4. 



Fig. 3. 



Eremias smithi. 



Head once and a half or once and three-fifths as long as 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 



