Scaj^fira. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



363 



(J DamaralMud 



Paritciilars of Specimens Examined. 

 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 



99 28 48 16 40 22-23 23 



$ Great Nauiaqu.alar-il, L.M. . 



P.M. . 



£ S. Africa .... 



Habifaf. — Uamaralaud and Great Namaqualaud. 



Closely allied to the preceding species and still more hi;;-hlj specialized. 



C. SCAPTIRA LINEOLATA. 



Scapfeira scripta (uou Straueh), Boettg. Zool. Jalirb. iii, 1888, 

 p. 914. 



Scapteira scripta, part., Zander, Zool. G-art. xxxvi, 1896, p. 303. 



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

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



Scapteira grum-grzimailoi, Bedriaga, iu NikoKskv, Herp. Ross, 

 p. 484 (1905) ; Elpatjevskj & 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. Kept. p. 657, pi. viii, fig. 10 (1912). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head l.j- to If times 

 as long as broad, its length .3,V to 4i 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 tlie 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 slioulder, the 

 collar, or the eye ; foot IJ to If times as long as the head ; digits 



