EREMIAS PULCHRA. 
riorly, edged with minute granular scales ; freno-nasal plate small, quadran- 
gular ; freno-ocular quadrangular, much broader behind than before ; ante- 
ocular plates small and compressed ; labial plates, anterior to large infra- 
orbital plate, four, behind it three, horizontally compressed and projecting; 
plates of lower jaw, exclusive of chin plate, five or six (Vide Plate XLVIII. 
figs. 13, 13 a, and 13 b). Ear-opening vertically subovate, and the membrana 
tympani visible, being immediately within the orifice. Scales of the back 
and sides small, ovate, disposed in more or less regular transverse rows, each 
row slightly removed from the other; scales of the under surface of the neck, 
anteriorly, small and subquadrangular, posteriorly, rhomboidal and in both 
situations imbricate ; antepectoral fold very narrow, and formed of twelve 
small irregular plates; pectoral and ventral plates quadrangular, and arranged 
in transverse rows, twelve in the most lengthened of the ventral rows : pre- 
anal plates rather numerous in four transverse rows. Femoral poreS eleven 
or twelve. Scales of the tail, superiorly, carinated, inferiorly, quadrangular 
and smooth. Forelegs, when directed forwards along the sides of the neck, 
have the longest toe of the foot extending slightly in advance of the eye ; 
hinder legs, when directed along the sides, have the longest toe reaching to 
the ear-opening. 
Length from nose to anus 2 inches ; of tail il inches. 
Found on dry flats in the interior of Southern Africa. In several respects this species re- 
sembles Eremias pardalis, but is at once to be distinguished from it by its having fourteen or 
more pre-anal plates, whilst E. pardalis has only three. 
