JEremias. 



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Habitat. — Eremias lineo-ocellata, in the wide sense, ranges from 

 Damaraland to Little XamaqualancI , the Northern and Eastern 

 districts of Cape Colony, the Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal. 

 Its occurrence in Natal (Durban, S. African Museum) requires confirma- 

 tion. The distribution of the varieties, whether based on the lepidosis or 

 the markings, is a subject worthy of investigation, but which cannot 

 be well understood without a larger series of specimens, from much 

 more numerous localities, than has been available to me. As hinted 

 above, I am inclined to think the division into Forma typica and var. 

 pulchella will have to be dropped. 



19. BEEMIAS ASPEEA. 



Eremias aspera, Bouleng. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xiii, 1917, p. 217, and 

 Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 6. 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head 1^ times as long 

 as broad, its length 4 to 4i 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 very feebly swollen, as long as the 

 postocular part of the head ; a feeble concavity in the middle of the 



