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Lacertidfe. 



Habitat. — Somaliland. The tvpe specimens, preserved in the Berlin 

 Museum, are from Brava. Numerous specimens were received by the 

 Genoa Museum, and the present description is taken from them. 



9. EEEMIAS BEENNERI. 



Eremias hrenneri, Peters, Men. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 432 ; Bouleng. 

 Ann. Mus. G-euova (2) xii, 1891, p. 8 ; Stejneg. Proe. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xvi, 1894, p. 719 ; Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova (2) xvii, 1896, p. 18, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 928, fig., and Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, 

 p. 4. 



Bouleiigerina hrenneri, Lataste, Ann. Mus. Genova (2) ii, 1885, 

 p. 117. 



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



Eremias edvmrdsii, Mocquard, Mem. Cent. Soc. Philom. p. 115, pi. 

 xi, fig. 1 (1888J. 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head 1| to 2 times as long as 

 broad, its length 4 to 4* times in length to vent, its depth equal to 

 the distance between the anterior corner of the eye and the tympanum ; 

 snout acutely pointed, longer than the postocular part of the head, 

 nasals not or but feebly swollen ; cauthus rostralis sharp, loreal region 

 feebly concave ; a strong concavity on the upper surface of the snout, 

 extending on the frontal shield. Pileus 24 to 2^- times as long as 

 broad. Neck as broad as the head. Hind limb reaching the eye or 

 the nostril; foot 1^ times as long as the head ; toes slender, compressed. 

 Tail 2 to 2i times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields fiat, closely and finely striated. Nasals in 

 contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal as long as broad or longer 

 than broad ; prefrontals longer than broad ; frontal as long as its 



