64 LACERTID^. 



Snout obtuse. Two supraoculars, the first and fourth being 

 broken up into numerous small scales and granules ; subocular 

 bordering the lip ; temporal scales keeled ; front edge of the ear 

 not distinctly denticulutcd. Dorsal scales strongly keeled, minute 

 anteriorly and on the sides, larger, rhomboidal, strongly imbricate 

 and keeled posteriorly. Ventral plates considerably broader than 

 long, in straiij;ht longitudinal and transverse series ; 1 plates across 

 the middle of the body. A median series of broad pra^anals, pos- 

 terior largest. The hind limb reaches between the collar and the 

 ear. Digital denticulations strong, shorter than the corresponding 

 diameter of the toe, much more developed on the outer than on the 

 inner erlge of the fourth toe. Upper caudal scales strongly keeled ; 

 basal subcaudals smooth. Yellowish grey above, with four longitu- 

 dinal series of squarish brown spots on the nape and the anterior 

 part of the body ; these spots more irregular on the hinder part of 

 the back ; flanks and limbs with rather indistinct light ocelli. 



Egypt, Somaliland. 



7. Acanthodactylus scutellatus. 



Acanthodactylus scutellatus, Gray, Cat. p. 37. 



• inoruatus, Gray, Cat. p. 38. 



Lacerta grammica, part., Licht. Verz. Donhl. Mns. Berl. p. 100. 



scutellata, And. Descr. Er/t/pte, Rept., Suppl. p. 172, pi. i. fig. 7 ; 



M.-Edio. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi."i829, pp. 74, 85, pi. vi. fig. 3. 



olivieri, part., Aud. I. c. p. 174, pi. i. fig. 11. 



dumerilii, M.-Edw. I. c. pp. 75, 85, pi. vii. fig. 9. 



Scapteira iuornata, Gray, Aytn. N. H. i. 1838, p. 281. 



Meroles dumerilii, Gray, I. c. p. 282. 



Acanthodactylus scutellatus, Dinn. Sf Bibr. v. p. 272 ; Strauch,Erp. 



Alg. p. 36 ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixii. i. 1870, p. 331 ; Boideng. 



Bull. Sue. Zool. France, 1878, p. 185, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 



p. 744, pi. Ixiii. fig-. 2 ; Boetty. Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1881, p. 401 ; 



Lataste, Aim. Mus. Genov. (2) ii. 1885, p. 491. 

 savignyi, var. schreiheri (non BouL), Vaill. Miss. Bevoil aux 



Pays Comalis, Bept. p. 20. 



Snout acute. Pour supraoculars, fourth sometimes broken up ; 

 subocular not reaching the lip ; temporals more or less distinctly 

 keeled ; front edge of the ear usually strongly denticulated. Dorsal 

 scales very small, rhomboidal, very slightly enlarged towards the 

 posterior part of the body. Ventral plates as long as broad, or a 

 little longer than broad, in irregular longitudinal and angular trans- 

 verso series ; 14 to 18 plates in a transverse series in the middle 

 of the body. Praeanals usually small and irregidar. The hind 

 limb reaches the tympanum or between the latter and the shoulder. 



