EREMIAS LINEO-OCELLATA. 
its anterior extremity ; parietal plates somewhat quadrangular ; palpebral 
plates two, margined anteriorly, externally, and posteriorly with small 
granular scales ; lower eyelids with an oval transparent disc, surrounded 
by small granular scales; freno-nasal plate small, somewhat five-sided; 
freno ocular plate large and four-sided, the posterior side longer than the 
anterior ; anti-ocular scales sublinear, keeled, and oblique in relation to the 
eye. The subocular plate forms part of the upper lip, and the rest of it is 
composed of seven scales, four before the plate just named, and three behind 
it ; scales of lower lip six or seven, rather narrow. The external opening 
of the ear vertical and subovate, without any distinctly projecting scales. 
The scales of the body and sides superiorly small, imbricate, somewhat 
triangular, carinated, and disposed in transverse rows. Those of the sides 
towards belly plain. Scales of the upper and lateral parts of the tail carinated, 
of the under parts, smooth. Scales of the under surface of the neck! 
towards the chin, small, ovate, and arranged in oblique rows ; towards the 
breast, small, somewhat triangular, and slightly imbricate. Antipectoral 
lold edged with thirteen somewhat quadrangular scales ; plates on chest and 
e ly subquadrangular, and disposed in transverse rows, about twelve in 
each row, the rows about thirty-three in number; preanal plates in four rows, 
the plates of the hindermost row the largest. Scales of upper and outer 
surface of fore-legs triangular, imbricate, and keeled, below, rhomboidal 
and plain ; front of legs above toes, covered with rather large plates 
Hinder legs, superiorly, coated with small triangular keeled scales, inferiorly 
towards toes, with large plates. Femoral pores, thirteen. The longest toe 
of the fore-feet, when they are placed along the sides of the neck, reaches 
to the anterior angle of the eye ; the longest of the hinder ones, when 
applied along the sides, approaches to within a line of the external opening 
of the ear. ^ 5 
Length from nose to anus, 2 inches ; length of tail, 4 inches. 
This is not quite so common as the species last described, yet is met witli in several parts 
of the colony. In various respects it resembles Eremias Knoxii, but is without difficulty to 
be distinguished from it by having a semitransparent disc in the lower eyelid, and also by 
its preanal plates being very differently arranged. 
