EREMIAS UNDATA. 
broad anteriorly, and somewhat club-shaped; interparietal plate rounded 
anteriorly, truncated posteriorly, and much wider before than behind ; pal- 
pebral plates two, sometimes three, the middle one then rudimentary, the shield 
formed by the whole is edged anteriorly, posteriorly, and externally, with a 
band of small subgranular scales ; occipital plate small, and of an irregular 
shape ; frenal plate, quadrangular ; anti-ocular plate large, quadrangular, and 
deeper behind than in front ; upper labial plates six ; the hindermost irre- 
gular, lengthened, and forms a part of the angle of the mouth. Lower eyelid 
with two transparent plates, forming a disc near its centre, the hinder- 
most smallest, elsewhere it is coated with small granular scales. Opening 
to ear, vertical, subovate, and, anteriorly, margined with four or five small 
projecting scales ; antepectorail fold distinct, its hinder edge throughout free 
and margined with about fourteen small plates. Breast and belly with 
oblique rows of subquadrangular plates, from ten to twelve in each row ; 
guttural plates small, ovate, and disposed in oblique rows ; preanal plates 
in four transverse rows, five or six in the last and two in the first row. Fore 
legs, anteriorly, superiorly, and posteriorly, coated with irregularly triangular 
imbricate scales, a few near the toes carinated ; interiorly with small granu- 
lar ones ; hinder legs superiorly and posteriorly covered with small granular 
scales; anteriorly and interiorly with rather large, subtriangular, imbricate 
scales : the tarsi superiorly also with small similarly shaped scales, all of 
which are strongly keeled. Toes, very slender ; claws, slightly curved and 
pointed. The longest toe, when the fore legs are placed along the side of the 
head, reaches exactly to the point of the nose, and the longest of the hinder 
feet, when the legs are placed along the side, touches the angle of the mouth. 
Femoral pores about thirteen. 
Length from point of nose to anus, 2 inches ; length of tail, 3 inches. 
Inhabits the arid sandy flats between Cape Town and Little Namaqualand. 
