478 Annals of the South African Museum. 



William (Schlechter) ; Tulbagh (Purcell, Lightfoot) ; Calvinia, 

 (Schlechter) ; Worcester (Purcell) ; Middelburg (Piers) ; 

 De Aar (?) ; Burghersdorp (Kannemeyer) ; Albany Division 

 (French) ; Paarl (Lightfoot) ; Aliwal North (Weisbecker) ; 

 Matjesfontein (Lightfoot) ; Hanover (Schreiner, Shortridge) ; 

 Little Namaqualand (Schlechter). 



Orange Eiver Colony : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 



Natal : Durban (Sanderson). 



5. SCAPTIRA. 

 Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 9 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 107. 



Five Species in Soutli Africa. 



I. Snout more or less conical, upper labials not forming an 

 angle. 



A. Lower nasal forming a suture with the rostral ; ventral 

 plates in 12 or 14 longitudinal series. 



Frontonasal separated from the rostral ; interparietal usually in 



contact with an occipital ,S\ knoxii. 



Frontonasal in contact with the rostral ; occipital minute or 



absent S. deprexm. 



B. Lower nasal separated from the rostral ; ventral plates in 



16 or 18 longitudinal series S. serripcs. 



n. Snout wedge-shaped, upper labials forming an angle ; lower 



nasal forming a suture with the rostral. 

 20 to 24 ventral plates across middle of body ; frontonasal sepa- 

 rated from the rostral S. cteiiodactyla. 



26 to 30 ventral plates across middle of body ; frontonasal in 



contact with the rostral S. cuneiroatris. 



1. SCAPTIRA KNOXII. 



Lacerta knoxii, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi., 1829, p. 76. 



Scaptira knoxii, Bouleng., t.c, p. 109. 



Cape Colony, Natal, German South-West Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (de Souza) ; Cape Division (French) ; 

 Clanwilliam (Leipoldt) ; Calvinia (Leipoldt) ; Matjesfontein, 

 Worcester Division (Lightfoot) ; Touw's Eiver (Paynter) ; 

 Little Namaqualand (Peringuey, Schlechter). 



Natal : Durban (Bowker). 



2. Scaptira depressa. 



Lacerta depressa, Merrem, Tent. Herp. p. 63. 

 Scaptira depressa, Bouleng., t.c, p. 110. 



Eremias suhorhitalis, Peters, (Efvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1869, p. 668 ; 

 Bouleng., i.e., p. 90 



