EREMIAS BTJRCIIELLII. 
terior angle acute, the others slightly truncated ; fronto-nasal separated 
from each other by the intervention of a small subquadrangular plate ; 
frontal lengthened, and broadest at its anterior extremity, its margin ante- 
riorly truncated ; fronto-parietal plates contiguous, and irregularly four-sided; 
inter-parietal large, four-sided, anteriorly triangular, posteriorly truncated. 
Occipital plate, small and subovate ; palpebral plates, two, forming an oval 
disc, which exteriorly, anteriorly, and posteriorly, is edged with small gra- 
nular scales ; freno-nasal, small and quadrangular ; freno-ocular, larger, 
somewhat triangular, the anterior angle slightly truncated ; ante-ocular scales 
very small, the anteriormost the largest ; plates of upper lip, in front of large 
infra-orbital plate, four, posterior to it three ; of lower lip, seven or eight, 
exclusive of the chin plate, vide Plate XLYIII. Figs. 4 and 4 a. Ear-open- 
ing large, vertically subovate, its edges are smooth, and two scales larger 
than the others are observed anteriorly, close to its upper extremity. 
Scales of back and upper parts of sides small, nearly circular, and placed > 
like stones in a pavement ; scales of under surface of neck, small, subovate, 
or subcircular, flat and slightly imbricate ; plates edging, ante-pectoral fold 
quadrangular, and about ten in number. The first and second rows of pec- 
toral plates are oblong and quadrangular, the remainder smallei, less 
lengthened, and not disposed in such regular rows ; plates of belly, in 
rows which extend almost directly across, fourteen plates in each of the 
longest rows ; pre-anal plates in several rows, five plates in each of the two 
middle ones ; femoral pores, twelve or thirteen. Scales of the upper and 
lateral parts of the tail carinated, of the under parts smooth, quadrangular, 
and those towards its base narrowest posteriorly ; scales of fore legs, towards 
body, small, smooth, and imbricate, anteriorly, towards toes, large and 
quadrangular ; scales of hinder legs small, and somewhat circular, and, an- 
teriorly towards body, and inferiorly towards toes, a covering of rather large 
plates, which, in the first-mentioned position, are disposed in a regular and 
longitudinal row. Under eyelid coated externally with a number of small 
semi-pellucid plates. When the anterior extremities are extended along the 
sides of the neck, the point of the longest toe reaches exactly to the point of 
the nose, and when the hinder ones are applied along the sides, the point of 
the longest toe reaches to the base of the fore leg. 
Length from the point of the nose to the vent 2 inches 3 lines, length of the tail 4 inches 3 lines. 
Inhabits the Karoo flats, on the south-west coast of Africa, particularly Little Namaqualand, 
towards the Great Orange River. It is wild, extremely watchful, and moves from place to place 
with great rapidity. 
