Sciijilira. 371 



11. SCArTIRA C4RAMMICA. 



Laceiia ijraiiimica, Licliteust. iu Eversm. Keise, p. 140 (182o). 



Lacerta () ram mica, part., Licliteust. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. ]>. lOO 

 (1823). 



Snqiti'ini gnimmicii, Wieijiu. Herp. Me.\. p. 9 (1834) ; Dum. & Bibr. 

 Erp. Gen. v, p. 283, jdI. liv, tig. 1 (1839) ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 32 

 (1845); Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61; Bouleng. Oat. Liz. iii, 

 p. 113 (1887); Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, p. 912; Zauder, Zool. 

 Gart. x.v.wi. 1896, p. 327 : Nikolsky, Fedtscheuko's Reise, Zool. ii, 

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

 Aral Exped. p. 21 (1903) ; Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 173 (1906). 



Pod.circes {Scapteira) grammica, Straiich, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Pi'tersb. 

 vi, 1867, p. 409. 



Head aud bod\' rather depressed. Head If to \\ times as long as 

 Ijroad, its length St to 4 times in length to veut, its depth equal to 

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

 acutely pointed, with swollen nasals, I5 times as long as the post- 

 ocular part of the head; canthus rostvalis sharp, loreal region vertical, 

 slightly concave. Pileus 2 to 2-]: times as long as broad. Hind limb 

 i-eaching the shoulder, the collar, or between the collar aud the ear ; 

 foot 1|- to I'J: 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 

 liehind the rostral, the suture between them J to | 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, Ij to 2 times as long as broad, narrow 

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

 siiialler than the frontoparietals, followed by a series of granular 

 shields separating the jiarietals.* Two large supraoculars, preceded 

 by granules aud 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, baud-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 an occipital in the S Transcasjiian specimens examined by him. 



