EUMECES SCHNEIDBEI. 197 
Fauna of Brit. India, Rept. & Batr. 1890, p. 219; Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 136; 
Boettger, Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1888, p. 918; Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 1893, p. Ill ; Anderson, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 16; Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 104; Olivier, Mem. Soc. Zool. 
Prance, vii. 1894, p. 114; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torino, ix. 1894, no. 167, p. 9. 
Plestiodon pavimentahts, Lortet, Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 187. 
1 ? . Marsa Matru, about 150 miles to west of Alexandria. 
3 J and 8 ? . Maryut District. 
Snout broadly pointed, short ; its length equals the distance between the eye and the 
base of the ear-lobules ; nasal generally divided, occasionally single, resting chiefly on 
the first labial, with its posterior lower angle on the second labial ; no postnasal ; 
supranasals broadly in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal occasionally divided, 
forming a broad suture with the second loreal ; frontal as long as, or longer than, the 
interspace between itself and the front of the rostral ; five supraoculars, rarely six, the 
first three in contact with the frontal ; five to seven superciliaries ; the interparietal 
completely separates the parietals ; four or five pairs of nuchals ; eight upper labials, 
occasionally nine, the sixth generally below the eye, rarely the seventh. Two azygos 
postmentals. Ear large, with 3 or 4 prominent triangular lobules at its front margin. 
22 to 28 (20 to 28 in Egypt) rows of perfectly smooth scales round the body, the scales 
of the two median dorsal series being each as broad as two of the lateral scales. The 
length of the fore limb is generally less than the distance between its humero-pectoral 
angle and the nostril, but it occasionally equals that distance ; when laid forwards 
it usually reaches between the eye and the nostril, but occasionally only extends 
to the middle of the eye. The hind limb is much shorter than the interspace between 
the fore and hind limbs, and equals only about two-thirds of its extent, or even falls 
short of that. The tail may be considerably more than once and a half as long as the 
body and head. 
The general colour of the upper surface is greenish olive with a brownish tinge, 
clearly defined off on the sides from the yellowish white of the unclerparts. The labials 
(month of April) are brilliant orange, with generally an olive-green spot on each, and 
this orange tint is prolonged backwards as a band through the lower half of the ear 
and along the sides of the neck and shoulders, and along the sides of the body. The 
sides of the neck below the orange, and the yellowish white of the sides of the body 
and of the tail are more or less spotted, or shortly feebly barred, with greenish olive or 
dusky olive, and, in adolescents, there are a few black spots on the sides and continued 
on to the tail. The entire upper surface, with the exception of the head, is spotted 
with brilliant reddish orange, the spots being arranged more or less in irregular longi- 
tudinal series or more or less irregularly transversely, especially on the neck and tail, 
where they sometimes form distinct transverse bands. Limbs pale olive-brown suffused 
with orange. Entire under surface yellowish white. 
