Scaj^tira. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent . 



,, „ ,, fore limb 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb . 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 



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Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



Habitat. — Damaraland and Great Naraaqualand. 



Closely allied to the preceding species and still more highly specialized. 



G. SCAPTIRA LINEOLATA. 



Scapteira scripta (uon Straueh), Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, 

 p. 914. 



Sca/pteira scripta, part., Zander, Zool. Gart. xxxvi, 1896, p. 303. 



Scapteira iineolata, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. i, 

 1897, p. 330, and iv, 1899, p. 395. 



Scapteira grtiin-grzimailoi, Bedriaga, in Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss. 

 p. 484 (1905) ; Elpatjevsky & Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxiv, 

 1906, p. 254 ; Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. x, 1907, p. 31 ; 

 Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. xvi, 1911, p. 282; Bedriaga, 

 Wiss. Ees. Przewalski Eeis., Amph. Eept. p. 657, pi. viii, fig. 10 (1912). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head 1^ to 1| times 

 as long as broad, its length 31 to 4;\ times in length to vent, its 

 depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and the 

 tympanum ; snout pointed, with strongly swollen nasals, as long as 

 the postocular part of the head, with sharp canthus and vertical, 

 grooved loreal region. Pileus twice as long as broad. Neck a little 

 narrower than the head. Hind limb reaching the shoulder, the 

 Qollar, or the eve ; foot IJ to If times as long as the head ; digits 



