366 Lacertiihv. 



pt. vii, p. 38, pi. vii, fig. 2 (1899), Herp. Eoss. p. 171 (1905), and 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. xvi, 1911, p. 281. 



Scapfeira scripta, part.. Zander, Zool. Gart. xxxvi, 1896, p. 3Uo. 



Scapttira hilkeivitschi, Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 486. 



Head and body rather strouyly depressed. Head about 1^ times as 

 long as broad, its length 3| 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 rather strongly swollen nasals, as long as the 

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

 loreal region. Pileus 1^ to 2 times as long as liroad. Neck a little 

 narrower than the head. Hind limb reaching the collar or between 

 the collar and the eye ; foot 1 1 1 o 1 h times as long as the head ; toes 

 slender, not or but feebly compressed. Tail about twice or a little 

 more than twice as long as head and body, depressed at the base, 

 slightly compressed posteriorly. 



Upper head-shields smooth ; nasals in contact behind the rostral, 

 the suture between them J to f the length of the frontonasal, which is 

 broader than long ; prefrontals as long as broad or a little broader 

 than long, forming a median suture ; frontal as long as its distance 

 from the nasals or the end of the snout, 1| to 2 times as long as 

 broad, narrow behind, grooved in the middle ; parietals a little 

 broader than long ; interparietal much smaller than the fronto- 

 parietals ; occipital minute or absent. Two large supraoculars, 

 preceded by a scaly or granular area and followed by a series of 

 granules and a small band-like shield ; a series of granules on the 

 inner side of the supraoculars and one, two, or three between the 

 latter and the superciliaries, which are 4 to 6 in numbei". Rostral as 

 deep as broad, narrower beneath than above ; lower nasal not reaching 

 the rostral, resting on the 2 or 3 anterior upper labials ; anterior 

 loreal as long as deep or a little deeper than long, much shorter than 

 the second ; subocular strongly keeled below the eye, much narrowed 

 beneath and bordering the mouth between the 5th and 6th or 6tli and 

 7th* upper labials. Temporal scales finely granular and smooth 

 above, much larger beneath; tympanic shield small if distinct; no 

 auricular denticulation. 



5 pairs of chin-shields, the 3 anterior in contact in the middle ; 19 

 to 22t gular scales on a line between the symphysis of the chin-shields 

 and the median collar-plate ; no gular fold. Collar curved, with 10 

 to 12 plates. 



* Or 7th ;iikI 8tli (,S'. hilketcitschi, Nikolsky). 

 t 20 to 26 according to Nikolsky. 



