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Inhab. Egypt. 



Scapteira lineata. (Ida lineata, Gray, MSS. B. M.) Greenish ; 

 back and base of the tail with six bright blue longitudinal streaks ; 

 beneath yellowish ; scales of the back rather large, rhombic, keeled ; 

 of the base of the tail short, sharply keeled. 



Inhab. N. Africa. 



b. Praeanal shields similar, but narrower ; abdominal shields 10 or 

 12-rowed, contracted behind ; interparietal plate rudimentary. 



Scapteira maculata. (Ida maculata, Gray, MSS. B. M.) Savigny 

 Rept. Egypt, t. 1, f. 9. ? ? Greenish, with a broad pale dorsal streak, 

 marked with indistinct blackish spots ; sides of the back blackish, 

 with three or four series of longitudinal oblong pale spots ; scales of 

 the back small, rhombic, acutely keeled ; of the base of the tail 

 broad, short ; toes slightly fringed. 



Inhab. Tripoli. 



c. Prceanal shields unequal ; the hinder central one large, the rest 

 smaller, placed in an arched series ; abdominal plates, 1 2-rowed. Ida. 



Scapteira inornata. (Ida inornata. Gray, MSS. B. M.) Green- 

 ish olive ; tail paler, with a dark streak on each side ; beneath sil- 

 very white ; scales of the back small, ovate, acutely keeled ; of the 

 base of the tail broad ; prseanal scales 10 or 12, subequal, with small 

 scales on the sides, placed in four transverse subalternating series. 



Inhab. Tripoli. 



Scapteira punctulata. (Ida punctulata, Gray, B. M.) Olive; back 

 with six longitudinal series of small distant blackish dots ; tail and 

 cheeks brown varied ; beneath whitish ; scales of the back small, 

 convex, rather rhombic, smooth ; of the tail elongate, narrow. 



Inhab. . 



Scapteira nebulosa. (Ida nebulosa, Gray, MSS. B. M.) Pale 

 olive ; back with three series of rather large distant black spots ; tail 

 elongated, with a series of black dots on each side ; scales of back 

 minute, granular, smooth, flattish, of upper part of tail elongated, 

 truncated. 



Inhab. Egypt. 



Scapteira leiocerca. (Ida leiocerca, Gray, MSS. B. M.) Olive 

 black, varied with brown, leaving six series of small round pale spots, 

 and six series of large oblong transverse pale spots, placed between 

 the others ; scales of the back small, rhombic, acute, smooth ; of the 

 base of the tail large, similar, smooth. 



Inhab. . 



F The toes of S. inornata are longly, of S. incequalis, S. maculata, 



