244 Lacertidcs. 



5. EEEMIAS MUCEONATA. 



Acanthodactyhis mucronatus, Blanf. Zool. Abvss. p. 453, fig. 

 (1870). 



Eremios mucronata, Gunth. Zool. Eec. 1870, p. 71 ; Boiileng. Ann. 

 Mus. Genova (2) xii, 1891, p. 9, aud Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 921, fig. ; 

 Ajiders. Zool. Egypt, Eept. p. 1 69, pi. xxiii, figs. 1 and 2 (1898) ; Steind. 

 Denkschr. Ak. Wien, l.'iix, l9<Jl, p. 330 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. E«s. iii, 

 1918. p. 4. 



Eremias lugiibris (non A. Smith). Yaill. Miss. Ecvoil Pavs Comalis, 

 Eept. p. 23(1882). 



Psetideremias Uneolata, Boettg. AbL. Senck. Ges. xiii, 1883, p. 118. 



Boulengeria mucronata, Lataste, Ann. Mus. Genova (2) ii, 1885, 

 p. 117. 



Eremias brenneri, part., Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 86 (1887). 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head li ti_p 1^ times as long as 

 broad, its lengtli 3^ to 4 times iu length to vent in males, 3y to 4^ 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior 

 corner or the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout acutely 

 pointed, 1^- times as long as the postocular part of the head, nasals 

 not or but feebly swollen, canthus sharp, loreal region feebly concave ; 

 a well-marked concaTity on the upper surface of the snout, extending 

 along the frontal shield. PUeus 2 to 21 times as long as broad. 

 Neck as broad as the head or a little constricted. Hind limb reaching 

 the eye or between the eye and the nostril in males, the eye or between 

 the ear aud the eye in females : foot 1^ to If times as long as the 

 head; toes slender, strongly compressed. Tail 2 to 3 times as long as 

 head and body. 



Upper head-shields flat, smooth, sometimes a little rugose and 

 pitted. Nasals in contact behind the rostral, the suture between them 

 i to i the length of the frontonasal, which i? as long as broad or a 

 little longer than broad ; prefrontals longer than broad, forming a 

 suture in the middle ; fioutal shorter than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, 1^ to 2^ times as long as broad, narrow behind, 

 separated from the supraoculars by a series of small scales, the series 

 rarely double in front ; parietals as long as broad or broader than 

 long, not longer than the frontoparietals ; interparietal small, separated 

 from the s.mall occipital liy one shield, rarely by two. 'I'hree supra- 

 oculars, in contact with each other, first as long as or shorter than the 

 second and occasionally mciie cr less divided ; 6 or 7, rarelv 5 or 8, 

 superciliaries, first longest, separated from the second and third 



