Scajjiira. 357 



oil the anterior jjart of the back auJ by the separation of tlie 

 uasal shiehls behind the rostral, this species is probably descended 

 from the same stock. On reconsidering the description given by Kuhl 

 of Lacerta de2)re8sa, I think the identification too doubtful to justify 

 precedence over Peters's Eremias stihorbitalis, the description of which 

 is perfectly clear, the type being preserved in the Berlin Museum, 

 where I have examined it in 1886. 



3. SCAPTIRA RETICULATA. 



Scapteira reticulata, Socage, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx, 1867, 

 p. 225; Bouleug. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 112 (1887); Socage, Herp. Aug. 

 p. 32 (1895) ; Werner, Jen. Denkschr. xvi, 1910, p. 338. 



Podarces (Scapteira) reticidata, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Pctersb. 

 vi, 1867, p. 424. 



Eremias serripes, Peters, (Efvers. Vet. Ak. Fijrh. 1869, p. 659. 



Scapteira serripes, Bouleng. t.e. p. 111. 



Snout long and pointed, nasals feebly swollen, loreal region concave. 

 The hind limb reaches the eye; foot about IJ times the length of the 

 head ; digits compressed. 



Nasals in contact behind the rostral ; frontal grooved anteriorly ; 

 interparietal rhomboidal; uo occipital; three large supraoculars, the 

 first with a small shield on each side,* the two others bordered 

 externally with granules. Lower nasal not meeting the rostral ; 

 subocular resting on the 6th, 7th and 8th upper labials t; no 

 baud-like upper temporal shield ; temporal scales obtusely keeled ; 

 anterior border of ear with two or three large projecting scales. The 

 two or three anterior pairs of chin-shields iu contact. Collar curved, 

 with 9 or 10 plates. 



Scales granular and smooth on the nape and between the shoulders, 

 larger, subimbricate, and obtusely keeled on the back. Ventral plates 

 about as long as broad, subequal, in 18 straight longitudinal and 

 29 or 30 transverse series. Two large preanals, posterior the larger. 



Digits keeled inferiorly, strongly fringed laterally ; one series of 

 very large and two or three of small plates under, the tibia. 21 to 

 23 femoral pores on each side. 



Upper caudal scales strongly keeled. 



* According to Werner, it may be broken up into two sliielJs and a number 

 of small scales. 



t Bocage has himself pointed out that the subocular is incorrectly described 

 in the original account of S. reticulata. 



