14, EREMTAs. 97 
or two of smaller ones. 12 to 14 femoral pores. Tail about 
twice as long as head and body; upper caudal scales, at the 
base, smooth or feebly keeled; basal subcaudals smooth. Coppery 
brown above, with black reticulations, sometimes confined to the 
sides ; sometimes a light or a dark vertebral band, bifurcating on 
the nape, and one or two light lateral bands ; limbs with round 
whitish, black-edged spots ; lower surfaces white. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 200 From end of snout 
Head 6 biewew cw yas 16 to vent ........ 68 
Width of head .... 18 ‘Fore limb........ 28 
From end of snout Hind limb........ 45 
to fore limb .... 28 Tail’ 4.9 aeiedeeeees 132 
South Africa. 
a-b. 3. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Types. 
ce-d. 3. Gans Cols, F. P. M. Week, fea (Py , 
eo. Mouth of the Orange Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type of 
River. E. laticeps.) 
f. 3d. 8. Africa, 
16. Eremias velox. 
Eremias velox, Gray, Cat. p. 40. 
Lacerta velox, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 457; Daud. Rept. iii. p. 202; 
Eversm. Nouv. Mém. Soc. Mosc. iii. 1834, p. 355, pl. xxx. fig. 3. 
cruenta, Pall. J. ¢. 
—— deserti, Lepechin, Tageb. Reise Russ. R. i. p. 318, pl. xxii, 
figs. 3,4; Daud. Rept. iii. p. 199. 
Scincus cruentatus, Daud. J. c. p. 278. 
Lacerta coccinea, Merr. Tent, p. 69. 
tigrina, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat. p. 119. 
argulus, Exchw. Zool. Spee. Ross. Pol. iit. p. 188. 
Podarcis velox, Ménétr. Cat. Rais. p. 62; Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Caue, 
76; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 376. 
Lacerta vittata, Eversm. I. c. p. 358, pl. xxxi. fig. 4. 
Eremias velox, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p.9; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, 
p. 874; Kessler, Tr. St. Petersb. Nat, Soc, viii. 1878, Suppl. 
. 166. 
ae ceeruleo-ocellata, Dum. §& Bibr. v. p. 295. 
Aspidorhinus gracilis, Eichw. Faun, Casp.-Cauc. p. 74, pl. xi. 
s. 4-6. 
Brarina variabilis (non Pall.), De Fil. Viag. Pers. p. 354, 
erythrurus, Severzow, Faun. Turkest. p. 71. 
—— persica, Blanf. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 370, and 
Zool. E. Pers. p. 3870, pl. xxvi. fig. 1. 
Podarces (Eremias) velox, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Rept. p. 26. 
—— (——_) persica, Strauch, I. ¢. 
? Eremias strauchi, Kessler, 1. c. p. 166, pl. ii. 
Eremias velox, var. persica, Boettger, in Radde, Faun. Flor. Casp.- 
Geb. p. 50. 
Head moderate; snout rather obtuse. Nasals swollen, the lower 
usually in contact with the rostral; frontonasal separated from the 
rostral ; two prefrontals (occasionally with a small additional median 
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