14, EREMIAS. 95 
whitish spots; sometimes with irregularly arranged ocelli; lower 
surfaces whitish. 
dé. ; 
millim, millim. 
Total length ...... 166 From end of snout 
Head ............ 13 to vent ........ 54 
Width of head .... 10 Fore limb ........ 21 
From end of snout Hind limb........ 37 
to forelimb .... 22 Mei cucu arog ee 112 
South Africa. 
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14. Eremias burchellii. 
Eremias burchellii, Gray, Cat. p. 40. 
Eremias burchellii, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 40; Smith, Ill. 8. Afr., Rept. 
pl. xlv. fig. 1, and pl. xlviii. fig. 4. 
Head moderate; snout obtuse. Nasals feebly swollen; fronto- 
nasal separated from the rostral; two prefrontals, forming a very 
short suture, or separated by a small azygos shield ; frontal not, or 
very feebiy, grooved ; two large supraoculars, 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 is a little less than, its distance from the 
loreal; one or two series of granules between the supraoculars and 
the supraciliaries ; interparietal pentagonal, longer than the suture 
between the frontoparietals, in contact with an occipital ; temporal 
scales granular, smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid 
with a semitransparent disk formed of several small scales ; subocular 
bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth, 
exceptionally sixth and seventh, upper labials; the three anterior 
pairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar straight, perfectly tree, 
with 9 to 13 plates. Dorsal scales granular, flat, perfectly 
smooth, 70 to 75 across the middle of the back. Ventral 
plates not broader than long, in 14 straight or slightly irregular 
longitudinal, and 29 to. 35 angular transverse series. Praanal 
seales small, subequal, irregular. The adpressed hind limb reaches 
the shoulder or the ear; the length of the foot equals the dis- 
tance between the arm and the centre of the eye or the anterior 
border of the orbit; a series of very large subtibial shields, and 
one or two of smaller ones; scales on limbs small, smooth. 11 
to 14 femoral pores. Tail about twice as long as head and body ; 
basal upper caudal scales feebly keeled, subcaudals smooth. 
Greyish or brownish above, with series of smaller or larger black 
spots, sometimes confluent into three or four bands on the body, five 
on the nape; these black markings extend on the head-shields ; 
