Eremias. 



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,y Anseba, Eritrea (type) 

 „ Walker's Torrent „ 

 „ Eas Beilul, Assab . 



„ Assab 

 „ Obok . 

 „ „ P.M. 



? ,. „ 

 „ Djibouti 

 3 Mandah, Somaliland 



Berbera 



ij Inland of Berbera 



$ Goolis Mts. Somaliland 

 „ Zaila „ 



„ Biji 



$ Laffarugh-Aberis „ 



Habitat. — Sinaitic Peninsula, West Coast of the Red Sea (as far 

 north as Mersa Alaibo^ Egypt), Eritrea, Somaliland. A specimen 

 from Suktur, Sind, associated with two Acanthodactylus cantoris, is 

 preserved in the Bombay N.H. Society's Museum.* 



Although not widely remote from E. speMi and E. luguhris, this and 

 the four following species constitute a very distinct section, charac- 

 terized by the four nasal shields (a character which occurs also, 

 exceptionally, in the section Eremias proper), strongly compressed and 

 unicarinate toes, and by the ensemble of the characters, the five species 

 being very closely allied. 



6. EREMIAS SMITHII. 



Eremias smithii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 534, pi. xxix, 

 fig. 4, and 1896, p. 925, fig., find Ann. Mus. Geneva (2) xvii, 1896, 

 pp. 9, 19; Lonnberg, Svensk. Vetensk. Ak. Handl. xlvii, 1911, no. 6, 

 p. 16 ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 4. 



* I suggested to the curator, Mr. Kinnear, the possibility of an error in th^ 

 locality, but he assures me he feels confident that the indication is trustworthy. 



