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Habitat. — Soraaliland (West and Soutli) and British East Africa 

 (plain North of Gruaso Nj'iri). 



7. EEEMIAS EEYTHEOSTICTA. 



Eremias erythrosticta, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. G-enova (2), xii, 1891, 

 p. 10, pi. i, fig. 2, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 924, fig., and Journ. Zool. 

 Ees. iii, 1918, p. 4. 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head If to 2 times as long as 

 broad, its length 3^ to 3f times in length to vent, its depth equal to 

 the distance between the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout 

 acutely pointed, twice as long as the postocular part of the head, 

 nasals more or less swollen, canthus sharp, loreal region concave ; a 

 concavity on the upper surface of the snout, extending to the middle 

 of the frontal shield. Pileus 2J to 2^ times as long as broad. Neck 

 as broad as the head. Hind limb reaching the eye or half way between 

 the eye and the nostril ; foot If to 1 J times as long as the head ; toes 

 slender, strongly compressed. Tail 2 to 2i times as long as head and 

 body. 



Upper head-shields flat, smooth. Nasals in contact behind the 

 rostral, the suture between them \ to i the length of the frontonasal, 

 which is longer than broad; prefrontals longer than broad, forming a 

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

 of the snout, If to 2 times as long as broad, narrow behind, separated 

 from the supraoculars by a series of small scales ; parietals as long as 

 broad, longer than the frontoparietals; interparietal small or very 

 small, separated from the very small occipital by one, two, or three 

 shields. Three supraoculars, the first shorter than the second and 

 usually separated from it by a series of small scales ; 5 superciliaries, 

 first largest, separated from the second and tliird supraoculai-s by a 

 series of small scales. Four nasals, two upper and two lower ; anterior 

 loreal IJ to 2 times as long as deep, shorter than the second ; 6 or 7 

 upper labials anterior to the centre of the eye, the two first in contact 

 with the lower nasals ; subocular keeled below the eye, resting on two 

 upper labials. A narrow upper temporal or a series of small shields ; 

 temporal scales granular, obtusely keeled ; a small tympanic shield ; 

 no auricular denticulation. Lower eyelid opaque, covered with small 

 scales. 



4 pairs of chin-shields, the 2 or 3 anterior in contact in the middle ; 



