304 



LacertidcV. 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head . 

 Pore limb . 

 Hind limb . 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 

 1. (J , Karoo flats, type. 

 Karoo ? 



2. (^ , E. Distr. of Cape Colony. 3. ? , 



Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



^ Karoo flats (type) 



2 ■ (?J 



J" E. Distr. of Cape Colony 



Habitat. — " Karoo flats, on the South- West Coast of Africa, 

 particularly Little Namaqualand, towards the G-reat Orange Eiver " 

 (Smith). Mr. J. P. M. Weale obtained specimens in the Eastern 

 district of Cape Colony. There are further records from Clanwilliam 

 and the Middleburg district of Cape Colony, Matjesfontein and 

 G-raaff-Eeinet. 



21. EREMIAS CAPENSIS. 



Lacerta capensis, A. Smith, Mag. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 93. 



Eremias capensis, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. G-en. v, p. 302 (1839) ; G-ray, 

 Cat. Liz. p. 40 (1845); A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Eept. pi. xl"v, 

 fig. 2, and pi. xlviii, fig. 7 (1845) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, 

 p. 114 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 96 (1887) ; Hewitt, Ann. Transv. 

 Mus. ii, 1910, p. 110; Sternf. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. v, 1911, p. 405 ; 

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



Eremias latieeps, A. Smith, 111. pi. xlvi, fig. 1, and pi. xlviii, 

 fig. 8. 



Head and body strongly depressed. Head about If times as lono' 

 as broad, its length 3f to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4?- 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of 

 the eye and the tympanum ; suout ather obtuse, with the nasal 

 shields strongly swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head, 



