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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
Family LACERTIDAE. 
Genus Eremias, Wiegm. 
Bouleng., B. M. Cat. Ill, p. 80, and Ann. S. A. Mus. V, 1910, p. 473. 
E. lugubris , Smith. 
E. lugubris , Smith, 111. Rept. 1849, pi. XLVI, fig. 2, pi. XLVIII, fig. 5 : Bouleng., l.c. p. 84. 
5 examples : 3173-3178 at Narudas Slid : 3177 at Wasserfall : all 
these specimens were found in sandy river beds. 
In one specimen the anterior border of the ear is feebly denticulated. 
The largest specimen, in life, measured 214 mm., of which the tail was 
156 mm. 
This is a very handsome species : the colour in life is as follows : — 
dorsally the head is olive-brown, the body chestnut-brown crossed with 
ink-black stripes which are broadest posteriorly, and the flanks ink-black 
broken with white spots : a light brown medio-dorsal line is present : 
the dorso-lateral line is white but yellowish posteriorly : the back 
posteriorly becomes paler the contrasting colours giving the creature a 
jacketed appearance : forearms blackish-brown with round white spots : 
hind limbs fairly light brown with round black-edged very light brown 
spots: tail light olive-brown: a white line passes along the upper lip to the 
ear and above the shoulder, and is continued along the flanks where it 
is much broken : lower surfaces white (description taken from a specimen 
185 mm. in total length). 
E . namaquensis , D. B. 
Bouleng., 1. c. p. 91 : Werner, Bept. Amph. Schultzes Reise, p. 330. 
17 examples in sandy places below the Great Karas Mountains. 
Localities: 3179, 3180, 3186-3192, 3195, in the neighbourhood of 
Wasserfall : 3181-3185, at Narudas Sud, 3193, 3194, between Groendoorn 
and Wasserfall. 
E. inornata , Roux, (text fig. 16.) 
E. inornata , Roux, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. XXV, 1907, p. 427, PI. XV, figs. 1-3: Hewitt, Ann. 
Trans. Mus. II, p. 109, and III, p. 48. 
E. undata , part Bouleng. : Ann. S. A. Mus., V, 1910, p. 477. 
10 examples from the Great Karas Mountains and neighbourhood, 
and from Quibis. Localities : 3199-3022, Wasserfall : 3203, 3204, from 
Quibis : 3205, 3206, Narudas Slid : 3208, Kraikluft at 5000 feet : 3207, 
between Groendoorn and Wasserfall in the Little Karas Mountains. 
Occurring on stony or rocky ground it was often taken along with 
E. pulchella but never with E. namaquensis. 
The scaling of the lower eyelid is variable : the transparent disc, 
usually with four or five scales, may have the upper two so much 
developed at the expense of the others that a two-scaled condition is 
thereby approached, but not actually attained in our series : or on the 
other hand the two upper scales may themselves be divided. ( Vide 
text fig. 16.) 
Boulenger in 1910 (1. c.) considered this species to be the same as 
undata : with this decision we do not agree, as we can recognize several 
points of difference between the two species, namely : — (1) that the 
anterior border of the ear in inornata. \ is not denticulated as is the case in 
undata : (2) that an elongated crescent-shaped scale on the supero- 
anterior border of the ear is invariably present in inornata , whereas it 
