88 LACERTID A. 
three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. A more or less 
marked transverse gular fold, connecting the ears; collar curved 
or more or less angular, free or attached (sometimes indistinct) 
in the middle, formed of 8 to 11 plates. Dorsal scales roundish, 
convex, smooth, juxtaposed, 40 to 55 across the middle of the 
body. Ventral plates in straight longitudinal and transverse series, 
broader than long ; in ten longitudinal series, the outer series com- 
posed of very small plates; 26 to 32 transverse series. Normally 
a large preanal plate, bordered by two semicircles of smaller ones. 
The hind limb reaches the shoulder, or not so far, in the female, the 
shoulder or halfway between the shoulder and the ear in the male ; 
foot as long as the distance between the arm and the anterior border 
of the orbit or the centre of the eye; one series of large, and two of 
small, subtibial plates. 10 to 17 femoral pores. Tail once and a half 
to twice the length of head and body; upper caudal scales strongly 
keeled ; basal subcaudals smooth or very obtusely keeled. Greyish or 
rufous-brown above, with very variable markings; series of black 
spots and white ocelli, or series of more or less confluent blackish 
spots along the body; some specimens with irregularly scattered 
blackish dots, or with regular blackish and white longitudinal 
lateral bands; others with a broad dark grey vertebral band with 
a series of shaft-like blackish marks on each side of it, &c.; lower 
surfaces white. 
gS: ae 
millim. millim 
Total length sissies cess uses ee 152 168 
ead: acca ee iwaw aw ence e aes 13 11 
Width of head .......... cece eens 8 8 
From end of snout to fore limb...... 20 20 
From end of snout to vent,......... 50 55 
Pore dim bs cing avin van wo eee ers 19 17 
Find inh 4 yes es 5 ceeded achaGraw Re ee 31 28 
Detalles each ots evatdulees abte wae PS aa aha wee ae 102 113 
North Africa ; South-western Asia, from Arabia and Syria to 
Sind. 
a 3. Aumale, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.]. 
b. Her. Laghouat, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.]. 
6. Os Tibremt, Algeria, . M. Lataste [P.}. 
d. 2. Cabes, Tunis. M. Lataste [P.|. 
ed. Susa, Tunis. Mr. Fraser [C.]. 
t-g. 39. N. Africa. Berlin Museum. 
h-l. 3 Q. Socotra. Prof. I. B. Balfour [C.]. 
(Types of E, balfourt.) 
m, Her. Sinaitic Peninsula. H. O. Hart, Esq. [C.]. 
n. Several spec.: Mt. Sinai. 
3,9, & her, 
od. Beersheba. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
p. 9. Neby Musa, Dead Sea. Dr. Anderson [P.]. 
gd. Near Isfahan, between W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
Shiraz and Teheran. 
