EREMIAS ANNULIFERA. 
large infra-orbital plate, five, behind it four, all small and unlike those in 
front ; plates of lower lip, not including that of chin, six ; the disc of the 
owei eyelid consists ol two pellucid plates. Ear-opening ovate, with the 
membrana tympani visible close to its orifice. Scales of back and sides small, 
subquadrangular, and disposed in regular transverse rows, slightly bending 
at the centre ol the back ; scales of the under surface of the neck small 
subovate, and imbricate ; antepectoral fold slender, and with ten small 
quadrangular plates, the centre one much the largest, those at the extremities 
very small. Pectoral plates small, quadrangular, and arranged in broken 
rows, those of belly larger, quadrangular, and ten in the longest rows. Pre- 
anal plates about twelve in number, three large in the last row, and a very 
small one at each extremity; femoral pores fourteen. Scales of upper and 
lateral parts of tail slightly carinated, of under parts smooth. When the 
fore-leg is placed along the side of the neck, the longest toe reaches to the 
point of the nose, and when the hinder leg is stretched along the side, the 
longest toe reaches to the external ear. 
Length from the tip of the nose to the anus If inch, of the tail 31 inches. 
Inhabits the interior of Southern Africa towards the tropic of Capricorn. The only two soe 
ces to which it bears, from certain details in its colouring, some faint resemblance are cer- 
tain varieties of E. Knoxn and lineo-ocellata. Its having a transparent disc to the lower 
eyelid, forms a character winch at once bespeaks it as different from the first, and having flat 
instead of carinated scales, establishes it as different from the latter 
