316 LacertiJir. 



Scales gi-anular, smooth, 63 across the middle of the body. Ventral 

 plates as long as broad or longer than broad, in 14 oblique longi- 

 tudinal and 31 transverse series. Preanal region covered with small 

 irregular plates. 



Upper surface of arm with small smooth scales. Scales on upper 

 surface of tibia similar to dorsals ; lower surface with one row of 

 large and one of small plates. 17 femoral pores on each side, the two 

 series naiTowly separated in tlie middle. 



Basal upper caudals obtusely keeled, lower smootli. 

 Brown above, with 9 longitudinal series of small dark spots, the 

 outer on the limit of the ventral region ; the dorsolateral series formed 

 of larger, squarish spots, light-edged on each side ; hind limbs with 

 light, dark-edged spots. Lower parts yellowish white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent 6-5 



Length of head 14 



Width of head 9 



Depth of head 7 



Fore limb 21 



Hind limb 32 



Foot 15 - 



This species is established on a single female specimen from Tengu- 

 Bar, Southern Alai, Russian Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. The above account is compiled from Bedriaga's descrip- 

 tion and figure. 



E. niJeolskii is regarded l)y its describer as connecting E. velox with 

 E. multiocellata, but differing from both by the broader rostral* ; in 

 the narrow separation of the series of femoral pores it is easih' 

 distinguished from the latter species. But I cannot help feeling 

 doubtful as to the validity of the species, wliich may be founded on 

 an aberrant specimen of E. velox. 



25. EEEMIAS REGELI. 



Eremias regeli, Bedriaga, in Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 479 (1905), 

 Ajin. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. x, 1907, p. 235, and Wiss. Res. 

 Przewalski Reis., Amph. Rept. p. 544, pi. viii, fig. 2 (1912) ; 

 Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Res. iii, 1918, p. 7. 



Head and body moderately depressed. Head a little more than 1^ 



* Its lower border longer tlian the space between the first large snpraocvilar 

 and the anterior loreal (prepalpebral space of Bedriaga) . 



