SCAPTBIIU. 179 



From snout to vent 2*8 inches ; tail 5. 



. Nab. Southern Eussia, Transcaucasia, Turkestan, Persia, 

 Baluchistan, Afghanistan. 



201. Eremias fasciata. 



Eremias fasciata, Blanf. A. M. N. H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 32 ; id. Zool. 

 E. Persia, p. 374, pi. xxv, fig. 3 ; Boukng. 1. c. p. 99. 



Very closely allied to the preceding, but smaller and more slender. 

 Head-shields and temporal granules flatter ; supraoculars fre- 

 quently bordered internally by a series of granules ; lower nasal 

 constantly resting on the three anterior labials ; subocular between 

 the sixth and seventh labials ; 45 to 50 dorsal scales across the 

 middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb reaches the collar in 

 the female, slightly beyond the ear in the male ; the length of the 

 foot equals the distance from the collar-fold to the nostril or the 

 end of the snout. 16 to 19 femoral pores on each thigh. Upper 

 caudal scales distinctly but obtusely keeled. Body pale brown to 

 white above, with from six to eight longitudinal dark-brown bands 

 as wide as the interspaces between them ; limbs dark brown, with 

 large round white spots ; lower parts white. 



From snout to vent 2 inches. 



Hab. Southern Persia and Baluchistan. 



Genus SCAPTEIRA. 

 Wiegmann, Herp. Mex. p. 9, 1834. 



Head-shields normal. Nostril pierced between three nasals. 

 Lower eyelid scaly. Collar distinct. Dorsal scales small ; ventral 

 shields feebly imbricate, smooth. Digits compressed or depressed, 

 smooth or keeled beneath, fringed laterally. Femoral pores. Tail 

 cylindrical. 



9 species are known, which are confined to the desert districts of 

 Central Asia and South Africa. The following species has recently 

 been discovered in Northern Baluchistan. 



202. Scapteira acutirostris. 



Scapteira acutirostris, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 114, and Tr. Linn, 

 Soc. (2) v, 1889, p. 100, pi. ix, fig. 4. 



Snout conical, acutely pointed; loreal region nearly vertical. 

 Nasals slightly swollen, lower not reaching the rostral, upper 

 forming a long median suture ; frontal grooved anteriorly ; three 

 large supraoculars, forming sutures with one another, the first in 

 contact with the first supraciliary, the second loreal, the prsefrontal, 

 and the frontal ; second and third supraoculars separated from the 

 supraciliaries and from the frontal by a series of granules ; two or 



