84 LACERTID &. 
2. Eremias spekii. (Pratz IV. fig. 2.) 
Eremias spekii, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, i 381. 
—— rugiceps, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1878, p. 202, pl. ii. fig. 1*. 
Head moderate; snout rather obtuse ; upper head-shields strongly 
striated ; nasals feebly swollen ; frontonasal broader than long, 
separated from the rostral ; two prefrontals; frontal scarcely 
grooved ; two large supraoculars, completely surrounded with gran- 
ules ; two scales on a line from the loreal to the anterior supraocular, 
the length of which equals its distance from the loreal ; interparietal 
rhomboidal, as long as or a little shorter than the suture between 
the frontoparietals ; occipital absent or minute; parietals as long as 
broad, with an elongated shield on their outer border; temporal scales 
small, strongly keeled ; a curved band-like scale on the supero- 
anterior border of the ear; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid 
scaly ; subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth (or 
fifth and sixth) upper labials ; the three anterior pairs of chin-shields 
in contact. Collar curved, perfectly free, with nine plates. Dorsal 
scales rhomboidal, juxtaposed, strongly keeled, 64 or 66 across the 
middle of the body. Ventral plates in straight longitudinal and 
transverse series, all much broader than iong; in six longitudinal 
series, the median pair narrower than the two others; 27 or 28 
transverse series. Praanal scales small, irregular. The bind limb 
reaches the ear or the eye ; foot as long as the distance between the 
arm and the nostril or the end of the snout; a single series of 
large subtibial plates. 14 to 18 femoral pores on each side. Tail 
more than twice as long as head and body ; caudal scales strongly 
keeled, except the basal subcaudals, which are obtusely keeled. 
Brownish above, with three longitudinal paler lines, and a more 
indistinct one along each flank; small black cross bars between the 
light streaks ; lower surfaces and upper lip white. 
millim. millim. 
Total length...... 199 From end of snout 
Head ....... sae. 12 te vent ...... 55 
Width of head.... 8 Fore limb ...... 19 
From end of snout Hind limb ...... 37 
to fore limb.... 19 Tail oi accets, shee « 144 
East Africa. 
a-b. 3S. 5°7'S. lat., between the Capt. Speke(P.]. (Types.) 
coast and Unyamwesi. 
3. Eremias lugubris. 
Eremias dorsalis, Gray, Cat. p. 41. 
lugubris, Gray, 1. ¢. 
Lacerta lugubris, Smith, Mag. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 98. 
Eremias lugubris, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 809; Smith, Il. 8. Afr., Rept. 
pl. xlvi. tig. 2, and xlvili. fig. 5; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 18, 
and 1870, p. 114. 
dorsalis, Dum. § Bibr. p. 805. 
* Types (Mus. Berol. 9287) examined. 
