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Show 922 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON SOME [Dec. 1, Head once and two-thirds to twice as long as broad. Upper head-shields smooth, or frontoparietals and parietals slightly sculptured; frontonasal as long as broad or longer than broad; anterior supraocular not bordered with granules ; interparietal small, separated from the very small occipital by one or two small shields ; an elongate shield on the outer border of the parietal; temporal scales granular, smooth ; subocular usually bordering the lip, between the fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh, rarely seventh and eighth or eighth and ninth, upper labial shields ; the subocular, however, sometimes excluded from the labial border, its Fig. 1. Eremias mucronata. point wedged in between two labial shields; the two or three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar with 6 to 12 shields. Dorsal scales granular, flat, smooth, 65 to 78 across the middle of the body. Six or eight longitudinal series of ventral plates, tbe outer series, if developed; formed of very narrow shields; 25 to 29 transverse series. A large median praeanal, sometimes replaced by three smaller shields forming a triangle. The hind limb reaches the eye or between the eye and the nostril; foot as long as the distance between the arm and the nostril or the tip of the snout, or slightly longer; scales on limbs unicarinate. 15 to 22 femoral pores on each side. Tail twice to twice and a half as long as head and body; upper caudal scales strongly keeled. Whitish, pale greyish, yellowish or pale buff above, dotted, marbled, or vermiculate with blackish or rust-red, with a more or less distinct dark, light-edged vertebral stripe ; limbs with large dark marblings. Young with five dark dorsal stripes separated by |
