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1. 9, Brava. 2. Hgr. Berbera-Obbia. 3. S, tjpe of E. 

 edwardsii. 4. $ , type of E. edwardsii. 



Habitat. — Somaliland (Brava and between Berbera and Obbia) and 

 East Africa (Tana River). 



I have examined two specimens preserved in the Genoa Museum, 

 and the two types of E. edwardsii in the Paris Museum. 



10. EEEMIAS GTJINEENSIS. 



Eremias guineensis, Bouleug. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (5) xx, 1887, 

 p. 51, and Journ. Zool. Kes. iii, 1918, p. 4. 



Head and body moderately depressed. Head If times as long as 

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

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

 obtusely pointed, with the nasals feebly swollen, as long as the post- 

 ocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis obtuse, loreal region feebly 

 concave. Pileus 2 J times as long as broad. The hind limb reaches the 

 ear ; foot a little longer than the head ; toes moderately slender, 

 feebly compressed. Tail 1|- times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields fiat, smooth. Nasals in contact with each other 

 behind the rostral, the suture between them } the length of the 

 frontonasal, which is broader than long ; prefrontals a little broader 

 than long, forming a suture in the middle ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, li times as long as broad ; 

 parietals as long as broad ; interparietal smaller than the fronto- 

 parietals ; no occipital. Two large supraoculars, the first separated 

 from the second loreal by two series of small scales ; 4 superciliaries ; 

 a series of granules between the supraoculars and the superciliaries. 

 Nostril between three nasals, the lower in contact with the rostral and 

 the first upper labial, the posterior as large as the lower and also in 

 contact with the first upper labial ; anterior loreal scarcely longer than 

 deep, shorter than second ; 4 upper labials anterior to the subocular, 

 which is keeled below the eye, much narrower beneath than above. 



