112 LACEKTIDiE. 



and two or tbree of small subtibial plates. 21 to 23 femoral pores. 

 Upper caudal scales strongly keeled. Sandy grey above, with 

 blackish reticulation ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail re- From end of snout 



produced) 118 to vent 47 



Head 14 Fore limb 20 



Width of head .... 9 Hind limb 37 



Prom end of snout 



to fore limb .... 19 



Damaraland, Benguela. 



4. Scapteira reticulata. 



Scapteira ? reticulata, liocage, Ann. (^ Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, 



p. 225. 

 Podarces (Scapteira) reticulata, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St, Petersb. 



vi. 18G7, p. 424. 



Head narrow, with elongate and pointed snout. Nasals swollen ; 

 two large supraoculars, bordered with granules externally and 

 posteriorly, preceded by a large shield placed between two very 

 small ones ; no occipital ; subocular bordering the lip, between 

 the seventh and eighth labials ; anterior margin of ear furnished 

 with three denticulations. Scales on the nape and the anterior half 

 of the back very small, juxtaposed, rounded, smooth ; on the 

 posterior half of the back the scales become larger and more 

 distinctly keeled and imbricate. Ventral plates quadrilateral, 

 arranged in longitudinal and transverse series; the widest of the 

 latter includes 18 plates. A large median pra>anal, surrounded by 

 smaller ones. Digits compressed, smooth beneath. Femoral pores 

 20 to 22. Caudal scales keeled. Fulvous above, reticulated 

 with dark brown ; three blackish streaks, more or less interrupted, 

 along the tail ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. 



Total length 150 



Head 14 



Tan 99 



Mossamedes, W. Africa. 



5. Scapteira scripta. 



Podarces (Scapteira) scripta, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. P4tersh, vi. 

 1867, p. 424. 



Snout pointed. Nasals feebly swollen, lower not reaching the 

 rostral ; frontonasal separated from the rostral ; frontal grooved 

 anteriorly ; two large supraoculars, entirely surrounded with 

 granules; a small posterior supraocular; interparietal rhomboidal ; 

 no occipital ; no band-like supratcmporal shield ; temporal scales 



