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Show 1896.] LIZARDS OF THE GENUS EREMIAS. 927 Eremias hochnell, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 719. Eremias striata, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2), xvii. 1896, p. 18. Fig. 4. Eremias striata. Head once and a half to once and three-fourths as long as broad. Upper head-shields striated, but more coarsely than in E. brenneri, in this respect intermediate between the latter and E. smithii; frontonasal a little broader than long; anterior supraocular not bordered with granules, the two others bordered with granules except on their horizontal sutures ; interparietal small but much larger than the occipital, from -n hich it is often separated by an additional small shield ; an elongate shield on the outer border of the parietal, variable in length and sometimes so short or broken up as to be indistinguishable; temporal scales granular, obtusely keeled; subocular bordering the lip, between the fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh upper labials 1; the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact2. Collar with 9 to 12 shields, usually 10 or 11. Dorsal scales rhomboidal, juxtaposed, keeled, 53 to 67 across the middle of the body. Eight longitudinal series of ventral plates, outer narrow ; 25 to 28 transverse series. A large median praeanal, sometimes followed by another or a pair, the three forming a triangle. 1 Between the fourth and fifth on one Bide in one of the specimens described by Peters. 2 Eremias hochneli is founded on a specimen which, in m y opinion, represents an individual anomaly in the mental pholidosis, as Mr. Stejneger himself has suggested. The first lower labial meets its fellow behind the symphysial, having fused with the first chin-shield, whilst the third chin-shield has also fused with the corresponding lower labial. PROC ZOOL. Soc-1896, No. LX. 60 |
