EREMIAS ANNULIFERA.— Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate XLVII. Fig. 1. 
E superne viridi-^risea, dorso sericlms quatuor macularum aut annulorum mgro-brunneorum vanegatis , 
Z in lineis i— distil 1 soutis ventralibun - onto. 
transverso decim ; poris femoralibus quatuordecim. 
Longitudo e nasi apioe ad anum 1 unc. 9 lin. ; caudsc 3 unc. 6 lin. 
Colour. The upper parts of the head, the back, the sides, and the ex- 
tremities, intermediate between bluish grey and greenish grey, the back 
beiim variegated with four rows of small, somewhat circular, liver-brown 
spots Some of the spots of the lowermost row of each side have their centre 
white, or, in other words, they resemble dark rings, and some of those ot 
the upper rows have a clear white spot immediately under their lower edge. 
Tail superiorly intermediate between bluish grey and oil-green. The un er 
surface of the neck, the belly, and the under parts of the tail pale greems 
^Form, &c. — Figure delicate. Tail long, slender, and very delicate towards 
the point. Head small and rather narrow, its sides, anterior to eyes, vertica ; 
nose narrow and slightly rounded. Nasal plates contiguous ; naso-rostral large 
and sub-rliomboidal, the angles rounded; fronto-nasal contiguous, the sides, 
where they join, short; frontal plate rather short, narrow behind, widened 
before, its anterior edge semicircular ; fronto-parietal plates narrow, six-sided, 
and with an indistinct angle about midway between the anterior and posterior 
extremities ; inter-parietal plate large, rhomboidal ; parietal plates large anc 
subovate ; occipital plate small, and situated close to the hinder extremity of 
the inter-parietal plate. Palpebral plates transversely ovate, and almost com- 
pletely surrounded with small granular scales, only a few wanting at the inner 
eltemi V of the posterior plate (Vide Plate XLVIII. figs. 14 and ,4 a ) 
Nostril prominent, each formed of three scales; freno-nasa plate small, 
somewhat quadrangular ; freno-ocular large, somewhat tr, angular, and trun- 
cated anteriorly ; anteocular plates small. Scales of upper lip, anterior to 
