Eremw.s. 291 



graduaUv larger, rhombic, iubimbrieate, and rather strongly keeled on 

 the bodv, graduatiui: into the caudals ; larger and smooth on the sides 

 and graduating into the veutrals ; 53 to 72 scales across the middle of 

 the bodv. Yentral plates in 12, rarely 14, often rather ii-regular longi- 

 tudinal and 32 to 38 more or less angular transverse series, the plates 

 mostly as long as broad or a little broader than long. Preanal region 

 covered with small iiTegular plates. 



Scales on upper surface of fore limb moderately large, obtusely 

 keeled. Scales on upper surface of tibia rhombic, feebly imbricate, 

 keeled, as large as or a little larger than the posterior dorsals ; one 

 series of very large and one of small plates on the lower surface. 

 12 to 17 femoral pores on each side. Subdigital lamellae bi- or tri- 

 carinate, spiuulose, 24 to 2S under the fourth toe. 



Upper caudal scales oblique, truncate behind, strongly and diagonallv 

 keeled; basal subcaudals smooth or obtusely keeled ; 24 to 32 scales 

 in the fourth or fifth whorl. 



Greyish or reddish orange above, with two whitish streaks on each 

 side, with whitish black-edged ocellar spots between them, or with two 

 pairs of dark brown streaks, the inner from the superciliary edge, the 

 outer from behind the eye, sometimes broken up into series of elongate 

 spots : these streaks bordered on the inner or the outer side, or on 

 both, by whitish ocellar spots : ocellar spots sometimes also present on 

 the back, between the bands, and on the limbs. Lower parts white. 



Measurements (in millimeti-es) : 



Sir Andrew Smith has omitted to state from what part of South 

 Africa his specimens were obtained. Hewitt regarded jB. Uneo-ocellata 

 and E. jjulchella as geogiuphical varieties, the latter belonging to 

 " Grernian South-TVest Africa and Western Cape Province, whereas Z{/ico- 

 ocellaUi is the Transvaal, Free State, and Kalahari form." The series 

 in the British iluseum and in the South African ]\Iuseum are, how- 

 ever, not in accordance with this view. 



In addition to Smith's specimens I have examined others from 



