14. EREMIAs. 91 
limb reaches the posterior border of the orbit; foot as long as 
the distance between the arm and the anterior border of the 
orbit; one series of large, and two of small, subtibial plates. 18 
femoral pores. Tail a little over twice the length of head and body ; 
upper caudal scales feebly keeled, lower smooth. Grey above, with 
small black spots; lower surfaces white. 
millim. millim. 
Total length...... 198 From end of snout 
Head .......... 16 to vent ........ 61 
Width of head.... 12 Fore limb ........ 25 
From end of snout Hind limb ........ 49 
to forelimb .... 27 TS, csseakeeere kes wees 137 
Damaraland. 
10. Eremias namaquensis. 
Eremias namaquensis, Gray, Cat. p. 41. 
Eremias namaquensis, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 807; Smith, Ill. 8. Afr., 
Rept. pl. xliv. fig. 2, and pl. xlviii. fig. 6. 
—— benguelensis, Bucage, Feit Sc, Lisb. i, 1867, p. 229. 
Head moderate; snout rather pointed. Nasals feebly swollen ; 
frontonasal separated from the rostral; usually a small azygos pre- 
frontal between the two large ones ; frontal grooved anteriorly ; two 
large supracculars, bordered anteriorly, posteriorly, and externally 
with granules ; two or three small scales or granules on a line from 
the loreal to the anterior supraocular, the length of which equals or 
exceeds its distance from the loreal; usually a single series of 
granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries; interpa- 
rietal normally pentagonal, longer than the suture between the 
frontoparietals, in contact with a trapezoid occipital; a curved 
band-like scale on the supero-anterior border of the ear; temporal 
scales granular, smooth; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid 
with a semitransparent disk formed of several scales ; subocular bor- 
dering the lip, normally between the fourth and fifth upper labials ; 
the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. A more or 
less indistinct gular fold from ear to ear; collar straight, per- 
fectly free, with 9 to 11 plates. Dorsal scales granular, smooth, 
juxtaposed, blending into the ventral plates, 60 to 65 across the 
middle of the body. Ventral plates in straight longitudinal and 
transverse series; in twelve longitudinal series; the plates of the 
median and outer series longer than broad, the others as broad 
as long, or a little broader than long; 29 to 34 transverse 
series. Praanal scales usually small, subequal, irregular; some- 
times an enlarged postero-median plate. The adpressed hind limb 
reaches the shoulder, or halfway between the shoulder and the 
ear, in the female, the ear, or between the ear and the eye, in the 
male; the length of the foot equals the distance between the arm 
and the anterior border of the orbit or the nostril; a series of very 
large and one of smaller subtibial scales; scales on upper sur- 
