102 LACERTIDA. 
slightly compressed posteriorly: upper caudal scales smooth or 
feebly keeled. Young greyish above, with white, black-edged 
ocelli, which may be confluent into transverse bands, rarely into 
longitudinal ones ; the ocelli persist in the adult or are replaced by 
black marblings or irregular transverse bands. , 
sai millim. 
Total length), sc 6: segs os sens Seg 153 140 
SEG ACs: "sires cies 28S eas Beata aides Selene 18 16 
Width of head. ...........00 000s 14 13 
From end of snout to fore limb .... 30 25 
From end of snout to vent ........ 73 70 
Hore. HM bis isa eg ee eae gg wees s 26 24 
UTD gees tease gg eee tices ew 37 33 
aD aig eeeea esas eee aes 80 70 
The largest specimens, male and female, with broken or repro- 
duced tail, measure 98 and 94 millim., from snout to vent, respec- 
tively. 
Southern Russia, Transcaucasia, Turkestan. 
a. 9. Odessa. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 
ba S. Crimea. St. Petersburg Museum | E.]. 
e-e. SQ. Baku. St. Petersburg Museum [F.}. 
f. Her. Transcaucasia. St. Petersburg Museum [E, ]. 
g. @. Dongus,Gov.Orenburg. St. Petersburg Museum [E. ]. 
ht. SQ. Kirghiz Steppes. St. Petersburg Museum [F. |. 
k. Yg. River Emba. St. Petersburg Museum | F.]. 
Lm. Yg. Mangischlak. St. Petersburg Museum [E. |. 
n-v. 9. Novo Alexandrovsk. St. Petersburg Museum [E. ]. 
p 3. Isbes Khan, North of St. Petersburg Museum [E. ]. 
Sir Daria. 
q. 9. Tschinas, Sir Daria. St. Petersburg Museum a 
r-s. 2. Lake Alakul. St. Petersburg Museum [F. | 
t-w. 3,9, & yg. Lake Sassyk Kul. Geographical Soeiety of 
Bremen. 
a. Yg. Lake Sassyk Kul. St. Petersburg Museum [F. ]. 
y. 3. Tarbagatai Mts. St. Petersburg Museum [E. 
za. Q. ' Western Turkestan. M. Severzow ich 
B-6. dQ. Turkestan. 
20. Eremias argus. 
Eremias argus, Peters, Mon, Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61, pl. —. fig. 3; 
Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, \xii. 1870, i. p. 336, pl. ii. figs. 1, 2. 
brenchleyi, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 419, 
and in Brenchley’s  Curagoa,’ p. 396, pl. xxii. fig, A. 
Podarces (Eremias) argus, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Rept. p. 32. 
—— (——) brenchleyi, Strauch, J. c. p. 80. 
Head short, snout obtuse. Nasals swollen, the lower rarely in 
contact with the rostral; frontonasal divided longitudinally, sepa- 
rated from the rostral; usually one or two azygos shields between 
the pair of prefrontals; frontal feebly grooved anteriorly ; two 
large supracculars, usually with a small one behind; the space 
