Scapfira. 351 



Scapteira Jnioxii, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 109 (1887) ; Weruer, 

 Jen. Deuksclir. xvi, 1910, p. 335. 



Head and body moderately depressed. Head 1^ to If times as long 

 as broad, its length 3s to 4 times iu lenglh to vent iu males, 4 to 4i 

 times in females, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior 

 corner or the centre of the eye and the tympanum : snout short, olitu.se, 

 nasals not or very feebly swollen, as long as the postocular part of the 

 head, witl) a very distinct lanceolate concavity from the frontonasal 

 shield to the middle or the posterior end of the frontal ; canthus 

 rostralis sharp, loreal region nearly vertical, concave. Pileus Ij to 2 

 times as long as broad. Neck as broad as the head or a little narrower. 

 The hind limb reaches the collar, the ear, or between the ear and the 

 eye in males, the collar or between the collar and the ear iu females ; 

 foot 11- to If times as long as the head; digits feebly compressed. 

 Tail about twice as long as head and body, feebly depressed at the 

 base. 



Upper head-shields rather convex, smooth or a little rugose ; nasals 

 forming a short or very short suture behind the rostral ; frontonasal 

 broader than long, sometimes longitudinally bisected* ; prefrontals 

 longer than broad, nearly always separated fi'om each other by one or 

 tAvo small azygos shields or by 3 foi-ming a triangle, or even 5t ; frontal 

 as long as its distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, 

 1| to 2 times as long as broad, narrow behind; parietals longer than 

 broad ; interparietal as large as the frontoparietal or smaller, iu 

 contact with a small occipital or separated from it by a small shield. 

 Three supraoculars, sometimes a small fourth, the first usually with 

 one or tAvo small detached shields on the inner side, sometimes broken uj) 

 iuto 4 to 9 shields ; a complete or iucomplele series of granules between 

 the supraoculars and the superciliaries, which are 6 to 8 iu number, tirst 

 longest. Itostral \}j times as broad as deep; lower nasal liroadly in 

 contact with the rostral, resting on the first aud second upper labials ; 

 anterior loreal as long as deep or deeper than loug,;J; shorter than the 

 second ; subocular strongly keeled below the eye, resting on the 

 5th to 7th upper labials, § forming a very obtuse angle between 

 the 6th and 7tli, its antero- inferior border much longer than the 

 postero-inferior. Two elongate, keeled upper temporals, the anterior 



* In 5 out of 24' specimens examined. — In 2 out of 15 examined by Werner. 



t 9 specimens with 1, 7 with 2, 4 witli 3, 1 with 5, and 3 without. — 1 or 2 in 

 the 15 siJecimens examined by Weruer. 



X Absent on oue side in one specimen from Calvinia. 



§ 4-th to 6th in one specimen examined by Werner.— On the riylit side in one 

 of the specimens iu the Paris Museum. 



