EEEMIAS RUBROPUNCTATA. 183 
Eeemias eubkoponctata, Licht. (Plate XXIII. figs. 5 & 6.) 
Lacerta rubropunctata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. 1823, p. 100; Pitz. Neue Class. Rept. 1826, 
p. 51. 
Scapteira nebulosa, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. i. 1838, p. 281. 
Mesalina lichtensteinii, Gray, 1. c. p. 282. 
Eremias rubropunctata, Dam. & Bibr. v. 1839, p. 297 ; Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Kept. (1849) 
pi. xlviii. figs. 9 & 9a; Klunzinger, Zeitschr. Ges. fur Erdk. Berl. xiii. 1878, p. 93; Blgr. 
Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 89; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1880, p. 308 ; Boettger, Cat. Rept. 
Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 92; Anderson, Herp. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 103. 
Mesalina rubropunctata, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 43. 
Lacerta {Eremias) rubropunctata, Riipp. Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, p. 304. 
? Eremias guttolineata, Hart, Fauna and Flora of Siuai &c. 1891, p. 210. 
1 $ and 4 $ . Stony plain, east of Suez Canal. 
2 $ and 1 2 . Plain of Kafr Gamus. 
1 ? . Margin of desert, Gizeh. The late V. Ball, Esq., C.B. 
8 $ and 3 ? . Margin of desert, Gizeh. 
1 ? . Desert, Heluan. 
1 ? . Ras Gharib. Mr. James Robertson. 
1 $ and 2 ? . Tel el Amarna. 
3 $ and 3 ? . Oasis of Khargeh. Professor Sickenberger, Cairo. 
Snout rather pointed ; nasals much swollen ; frontonasal in contact with the rostral, 
either broadly or narrowly, and rarely separated from it by the upper nasals ; frontonasal 
and frontal slightly grooved ; two prefrontals ; two supraoculars ; six or seven super- 
ciliaries, with a varying number of granules between them and the second supraocular ; 
interparietal slightly smaller than a frontoparietal, in contact with the occipital ; two 
loreals, the anterior narrow and elongate ; subocular enters the labial margin usually 
between the fourth and fifth labials ; transparent ocular disk broken up even to as 
many as seven pieces. Ear not denticulated ; temporals smooth, granular ; the anterior 
pairs of chin-shields in contact ; a feeble transverse gular fold ; collar more or less 
attached in the mesial liue. Dorsal scales minute, granular, rounded, juxtaposed, 
and smooth; 65 to 78 scales round the middle of the body including the ventrals. 
Ventrals rather small, arranged in longitudinal lines, 31 to 37 in the mesial line from 
the collar to before the inner end of the line of femoral pores ; 12 in transverse series, 
rarely 10 ; each plate generally nearly as broad as long, the two mesial rows have 
their lateral borders more or less convergent ; a large transversely broad prreanal plate, 
with a semicircle of enlarged plates around it. 13 to 19 femoral pores. Limbs well 
developed, longer in the males than in the females ; the hind limb in the former reaches 
to the shoulder or to between the shoulder and the ear. Tail usually once and a half 
as long as the body and head, sometimes once and two-thirds, but never twice as long ; 
caudal scales keeled above, smooth below. 
