318 Lacertidse. 



G-reyisli yellow above, with 7 longitudinal series of small dark 



brown spots dotted with yellow ; hind limb with large round yellowish 

 spots. Lower parts yellowish white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent 66 



Length of head 16-5 



Width of head 105 



Depth of head 9 



Fore limb 24-6 



Hind limb 36-5 



Foot 18-5 



Tail 125 



The above is an abstract of Bedriaga's description of a single male 

 specimen from Shirabad, Russian Turkestan, preserved in the Petrograd 

 Museum. 



Distinguished from JE. niholsMi by the broader rostral extensively in 

 contact with the lower nasal. 



26. EREMIAS FASCIATA. 



JEremias fasciata, Blanf. Ann. & Mag. N.H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 32, 

 and Zool. E. Pers. p. 374, pi. xxv, fig. 3 (1876) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. 

 iii, p. 99 (1887), and Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 179 (1890) ; Mkolsky, Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. ii, 1897, p. 25, Herp. Eoss. p. 155 (1905), 

 and Herp. Caucas, p. 99 (1913) ; Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, 

 p. 7. 



Podarces {Eremias) fasciata, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Eept. p. 26 

 (1876). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed, limbs slender. Head 

 1| to 14 times as long as broad, its length 3| to 4^ times in length to 

 vent, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and 

 the tympanum ; snout pointed, with the nasals swollen, as long as the 

 postocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis obtuse, loreal region 

 feebly concave. Pileus If to 2 times as long as broad. Hind limb 

 reaching the ear in males, the shoulder, the collar, or between the collar 

 and the ear in females ; foot Ij to 1| times the length of the head ; 

 toes slender, not compressed, very feebly but distinctly denticulate 

 laterally. Tail 1 1 to 2 times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields flat, smooth ; nasals in contact behind the rostral, 

 the suture between them i to ^ the length of the frontonasal, which is 



