106 LACERTID A, 
no occipital ; temporal scales granular, smooth; an elongate scale 
on the supero-anterior border of the ear; no auricular denticulation; 
lower eyelid opaque ; subocular usually not reaching the lip, resting 
on the sixth, seventh, and eighth, or seventh, eighth, and ninth 
upper labials; lower nasal in contact with two or three labials ; 
the three or four anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. A 
distinct transverse gular fold, connecting the ears; 32 to 38 gular 
scales on a line from the collar to the suture between the anterior 
chin-shields ; collar slightly curved, perfectly free, with 11 to 13 
small plates. Dorsal scales granular, suboval, juxtaposed, per- 
fectly smooth, 60 to 65 across the middle of the body. Ventral 
plates forming irregular oblique longitudinal, and slightly angular 
transverse series; the longest transverse series contain 16 to 20 
plates, which are longer than broad; 35 to 38 transverse series. 
Preanal scales small, irregular, a few postero-median slightly 
enlarged. The adpressed hind limb reaches the axil or the collar; 
foot as long as the distance between the arm and the centre of the 
eye or the posterior border of the orbit; usually an outer series of 
large transverse shields, which are sometimes smaller and more 
irregular. 13 to 16 (11 to 17) femoral pores. Tail once and one 
fourth to once and a half as long as head and body; upper caudal 
scales obtusely keeled, basal subcaudals smooth. Pale yellowish or 
brownish above, spotted, marbled, or largely reticulated with black, 
the black spots extending on the head; lower surfaces white. 
: millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 175 From end of snout 
Head a cosve cigs ea sace 17 to vent ........ 75 
Width of head .... 12 Forelimb ........ 25 
From end of snout to Hind limb........ 40 
fore limb ...... 29 Tall: x ectaccsaaios 100 
Mongolia. 
a 9. Alashan Desert. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. (As typical 
of E. kesslert.) 
b 2. Tschirgu-Bulyk. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. (As typical 
of E. brachydactyla.) 
ec, @.  Khara-Morité. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. (As typical 
of E. przewalskit.) 
24, Eremias vermiculata. 
Eremias vermiculata, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliv. 1875, p. 194, 
and 2nd Yarkand Miss., Rept. p. 18, pl. ii. fig. 5. 
Podarces (Eremias) pylzowi, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Rept. p. 28, 
pl. vi. fig. 1. 
Head moderate; snout rather pointed. Nasals swollen, lower 
not reaching the rostral; frontouasal separated from the rostral ; 
two prefrontals; frontal feebly grooved anteriorly; two large 
