its anterior extremity; parietal plates somewhat quadrangular; palpebral
plates two, margined anteriorly, externally, and posteriorly with small
granular scales; lower eyelids with an oval transparent disc, surrounded
by small granular scales; freno-nasal plate small, somewhat five-sided;
freno-ocular plate large and four-sided, the posterior side longer than the
anterior; anti-ocular scales sublinear, keeled, and oblique in relation to the
eye. The subocular plate forms part of the upper lip, and the rest of it is
composed of seven scales, four before the plate just named, and three behind
i t ; scales of lower lip six or seven, rather narrow. The external opening
of the ear vertical and subovate, without any distinctly projecting scales.
The scales of the body and sides superiorly small, imbricate, somewhat
triangular, carinated, and disposed in transverse rows. Those of the sides
towards belly plain. Scales of the upper and lateral parts of the tail carinated,
of the under parts, smooth. Scales of the under surface of the neck,
towards the chin, small, ovate, and arranged in oblique rows; towards the
breast, small, somewhat triangular, and slightly imbricate. Antipectoral
fold edged with thirteen somewhat quadrangular scales; plates on chest and
belly subquadrangular, and disposed, in transverse rows, about twelve in
each row, the rows about thirty-three in number; preanal plates in four rows,
the plates of the hindermost row the largest. Scales of upper and outer
surface of fore-legs triangular, imbricate, and keeled, below, rhomboidal
and plain; front of legs above toes, covered with rather large plates.
Hinder legs, superiorly, coated with small triangular keeled scales, inferiorly,
towards toes, with large plates. Femoral pores, thirteen. The longest toe
of the fore-feet, when they are placed along the sides of the neck, reaches
to the anterior angle of the eye; the longest of the hinder ones, when
applied along the sides, approaches to within a line of the external opening
of the ear.
Length from nose to anus, 2 inches; length of tail, 4 inches.
This is not quite so common as the species last described, yet is met with in several parts
of the colony. In various respects it resembles Eremias Knoxii, but is without difficulty to
be distinguished from it by having a semitransparent disc in the lower eyelid, and also by
its preanal plates being very differently arranged.