EREMIAS NAMAQUENSIS. 
the suhorbital plate, which forms a portion of the lip, and three behind it ; on 
the right side there are four in front of suborbital plate, and two behind it ; 
scales of lower lip six ; freno-nasal plate quadrangular, anterior and posterior 
sides nearly of equal length ; freno-ocular plates four-sided, the hinder side 
much the longest ; anti-ocular plates small, the uppermost quadrangular, the 
lowermost linear; ear opening vertical, slightly oviform, and both edges even. 
Scales of back and upper parts of sides minute, ovate, granular, and disposed 
in rather waved transverse lines ; the scales of the lower parts of the sides 
rather larger, flat, and subtriangular ; scales of under surface of neck small, 
ovate, and arranged in transverse bands, those towards chin slightly arched 
or angular, those towards breast oblique ; ante-pectoral fold margined behind 
with eight subquadrangular scales, and between these and the scales of the 
neck, already described, there are three or four transverse rows of subquad- 
rangular scales, larger than those in front of them. The plates of the first 
pectoral row are four-sided, long, and transversely narrow; the rest are, 
like those of the belly, much smaller, subquadrangular, and disposed in trans- 
verse rows. The plates about half way between anterior and posterior 
extremities, generally twelve in each row ; preanal plates in three rows, those 
of the two hinder rows largest, four in the last, and two in the one before it, 
also some smaller ones on each side of both, and also behind the last. 
The fore-legs, inferiorly, towards toes, coated with a longitudinal row of small 
plates ; anteriorly, with a row of a larger size ; toes slender, the third and 
fourth equal and longest; the hinder legs inferiorly towards toes, with a lon- 
gitudinal row of large plates ; thighs anteriorly coated with plates ; scales of 
upper and lateral parts of tail carinated, of under parts smooth. Femoral 
pores, fourteen. The point of the fourth toe, when the fore-legs are carried 
along the sides of the neck, reaches the anterior angle of the eye, and the 
point of the fourth toe of the hinder extremities, when they are stretched along 
the sides, reaches the angle of the mouth. 
Length from point of nose to anus, 2 inches ; length of tail, 5 ± inches. 
The only specimens of this lizard which I have seen were obtained in Great Namaqualand 
