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Show 1896.] LIZARDS OF THE GENUS EREMIAS. 925 Adult sandy grey or buff above, with brick-red or black and red dots; tail uniform or spotted with bluish grey and black; lower parts white. Young with five grey longitudinal streaks, which may be broken up by round whitish spots. 6. 2 • millim. millim. Total length 182 145 Head 15 13 Width of head 9 7 From end of snout to fore limb 21 18 „ „ „ vent 52 47 Fore limb 20 18 Hind limb 41 38 Tail 130 98 This species has only been obtained once, in numerous specimens, in Somaliland, on the route from Obbia to Berbera, by the Italian traveller Robecchi. 3 E R E M I A S SMITHI. (Fig. 3.) Eremias smithi, Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 534, pl. xxix. fig. 4. Fig. 3. ffiffiffilffiiMff8iSW mm Eremias smithi. Head once and a half or once and three-fifths as long as broad. Upper head-shields rugose, sculptured and pitted, but not striated; frontonasal as long as broad; three large supraoculars, first in contact with second or separate, the second and third forming together an oval disk surrounded with granules which here and there may be in two rows ; interparietal usually separated from the occipital by one or two small shields ; an elongate shield on |