EREMIAS MUCRONATA. 169 
EREMIAS. 
Eremias, Wiegni. Herp. Mex. pt. i. 1834, p. 9. 
Nostril defined by three or four nasal plates. Lower eyelid scaly, or with a trans- 
parent disk frequently broken up into small pieces. Occipital frequently absent. 
Collar free or detached, transverse, angular or curved ; gular fold sometimes present. 
Dorsal scales small, non-imbricate or imbricate. Ventrals smooth, quadrangular, in 
straight longitudinal or in irregular and slightly oblique longitudinal series. Digits 
nearly cylindrical or compressed, with keeled transverse lamellae below, but without 
a lateral fringe. Femoral pores present. 
Ekemias muceonata, Blanford. (Plate XXIII. figs. 1 & 2.) 
Acanthodactylus mucronatus, Blanford, Zool. of Abyss. 1870, p. 453, fig. 
Eremias mucronata, Giinther, Zool. Rec. 1870, p. 71 ; Blgr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. 2, xii. 
(xxxii.) 1891, p. 11 ; Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvi. 1895, p. 168; Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. 2, 
xv. (xxxv.) 1895, p. 13; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 534; Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. 2, xvi. 
(xxxvi.) 1896, p. 551 ; op. cit. ser. 2, xvii. (xxxvii.) 1896, p. 9 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 920 
& figs.; Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. 2, xvii. (xxxvii.) 1897, p. 278; Boettger, Zool. Anz. 1893, 
p. 115 ; Anderson, Herpet. of Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 103. 
Eremias lugubris (non Smith), Vaill. Miss. Revoil Faune et Flor. Pays Comalis, Rept. et Batr. 
1882, p. 23. 
Pseuderemias lineolata, Boettger, Abb. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 118. 
Boulengeria mucronata, Lataste, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. 2, ii. (xxii.) 1885, p. 117. 
Eremias brenneri, part., Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 86. 
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Head somewhat depressed ; snout rather sharply pointed, moderately long ; nasals 
but little swollen, four in number, two lower, an upper and a posterior. Head-shields 
occasionally more or less faintly rugose ; frontonasal excluded from the rostral by the 
nasals which form a broad suture behind it ; frontonasal and frontal deeply grooved ; 
two prefrontals ; three large supraoculars ; the first the smallest and occasionally more 
or less divided ; only the second and third supraoculars bordered by granules externally 
and internally ; interparietal small, separated from the small occipital by a line of one 
or more small pieces ; parietals more or less subquadrangular, with a narrow elongate 
scale along the outer border ; temporals granular, smooth ; two loreals, the hinder 
shield small ; subocular not entering or entering the labial margin, resting usually on 
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