Scapiira. 371 



11. SCAPTIRA GRAMMICA. 



Lacerta yrammica, Lichteust. in Eversm. Reise, p. 140 (1823). 



Lacerta graminica, part., Licliteust. Verz. Doubl. Miis. Berl. p. 100 

 (1823). 



Scapteira (jrammica, Wiet^ni. Herp. Mex.p.9 (1834) ; Dum. & Bil)r. 

 Erp. Geu. V, p. 283, pi. liv, fig. 1 (1839) ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 32 

 (1845) ; Peters, Mod. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61 ; Bouleug. Cat. Liz. iii, 

 p. 113 (1887) ; Boettg. Zool. Jalirb. iii, 1888, p. 912 ; Zander, Zool. 

 Gart. xxxvi, 1896, p. 327 ; Nikolsky, Fedtschenko's Reise, Zool. ii, 

 p;.rt vii, p. 39, pi. vii, fig. 1 (1899); Elpatiebski, Amph. Rept. 

 Aral Exped, p. 21 (1903) ; Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 173 (1905). 



Podarces {Scapteira) (jrammica, Straiich, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Petersh. 

 vi, 1867, p. 409. 



Head and body rather depressed. Head If to 1| times as long as 

 broad, its length 3f to 4 times in length to vent, its depth equal to 

 the distance between the centre of the eye and the tympanum ; snout 

 acutely pointed, with swollen nasals, H times as long as the post- 

 ocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis shai'p, loi'eal region vertical, 

 slightly concave. Pileus 2 to 2\ times as long as broad. Hiiid limb 

 reaching the shoulder, the collar, or between the collar and the ear ; 

 foot 1^- to \\ times the length of the head ; toes long, flattened. Tail 

 not quite twice as long as head and body, depressed at the base. 



Upper head-shields smooth or more or less rugose ; rostral a little 

 deeper than broad, narrower beneath than above ; nasals in contact 

 behind the rostral, the suture between them ^ to i the length of the 

 frontonasal, which is broader than long ; prefrontals longer than 

 broad, forming an extensive median suture ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the nasals, Ig to 2 times as long as broad, narrow- 

 behind, grooved in front; parietals broader than long; interparietal 

 smaller than the frontoparietals, followed by a series of granular 

 shields separating the jJarietals.* Two large supraoculars, preceded 

 by granules and small shields, one of which may be termed a first 

 supraocular, but always separated from the large shields by a series 

 of granules ; a small, band-like posterior supraocular, separated from 

 the preceding by a series of granules ; a series of granular scales on 

 the inner and outer borders of the two large supraoculars ; 6 to 8 

 superciliaries, first longest. Lower nasal not reaching the rostral, 

 resting on the three anterior upper labials ; anterior loreal longer 

 than deep or deeper than long, shorter than the second ; subocular 



* These may be absent, according to Boettger, and Zander could find no trace 

 of au occipital in the S Transcaspiau specimens examined by him. 



