Eremias. 327 



? Khara-Morite 

 Hgr. Ordos Desert 



? Chinese Turkestan, P.M. 

 Habitat. — Chinese Turkestan and Mongolia, from Lob Nor to Ordos. 



30. EEEMIAS MULTIOCELLATA. 



Eremias multiocellata, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) x, 1872, 

 p. 419, and in Brenchley, " Cura9oa," Eept. p. 400 (1873); Bouleng. 

 Cat. Liz. iii, p. 103 (1887) ; Nikolsky, Pedtschenko's Eeise, Zool. ii, 

 pt. vii, p. 37 (1899), and Herp. Eoss. p. 169 (1905) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. 

 Ees. Przewalski Eeis., Amph. Eept. p. 678 (1912) ; Bouleng. Journ. 

 Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 8. 



Eremias cxruleo-ocellata (non D. & B.), Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1872, p. 373. 



Eremias yarlcandensis, Blanf . Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliv, 1875, p. 194, 

 and 2nd Tarkand Miss., Eept. p. 16, pi. ii, fig. 3 (1878). 



Eremias yarlcandensis, rar. saturata, Blanf. ll.cc. fig. 4. 



Podarces (Eremias) multiocellata, Strauch, Voy. Przewalski, Eept. 

 p. 26 (1876). 



Podarces (Eremias) planiceps, Stiuuch, op. cit. p. 39, pi. iv, fig. 3. 



Eremias multiocellata, var. Icoslowi, Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Zool. 

 St. Petersb. x, 1907, p. 183, and op. cit. p. 588, pi. viii, fig. 8. 



? Eremias huechneri, Bedriaga, ll.cc. pp. 184, 600, pi. viii, fig. 1. 



Habit rather stout or moderately slender, body moderately depressed. 

 Head more or less depressed, 1^ to 1| times as long as broad, its 

 length 3f to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4i times in 

 females, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior corner 

 or the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout pointed, nasals not 

 or scarcely swollen, as long as the postocular part of the head, without 

 or with a very feeble concavity above ; canthus rostralis rather obtuse, 

 loreal region feebly concave. Pileus If to 2 times as long as broad. 

 Neck as broad as the head or a little narrower. Hind limb reaching 

 the axil, the shoulder, or the collar in males, the elbow, the axil, or 

 the shoulder in females ; foot as long as the head or a little longer (\\ 

 to 1^ times) ; toes feebly compressed, rather short or moderately 

 elongate. Tail only a trifle longer than head and body, or nearly 

 twice as long. 



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

 rostral, the suture between them i to |^ the length of the frontonasal, 



