15. SCAPTEIBA. 113 



granular, smooth ; edge of car not denticulated ; subocular border- 

 ing the lip, between the sixth and seventh upper labials ; the three 

 anterior jjairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar curved, perfectly 

 free, with about nine plates. Dorsal scales minutely granular, 

 smooth, larger on the sides. Ventral plates as long as broad, sub- 

 equal, in oblique longitudinal series ; 34 transverse series, the 

 longest of which contain 16 plates, Trocanals small, irregular. 

 The adpressed hind limb reaches the collar ; foot slightly longer 

 than the distance between the arm and the anterior border of 

 the orbit ; digits not depressed, keeled inferiorly, moderately fringed 

 laterally ; the ungual lamelhc much enlarged, forming a suboval 

 disk ; one series of very large and one of small subtibial plates. 

 12 or 13 femoral pores. Tail about twice as long as head and 

 body ; caudal scales feebly keeled. Pale sandy grey above ; back . 

 with small dark brown dots or vermiculations confluent into 

 longitudinal lines ; sides with three regular dark longitudinal 

 streaks, median broadest and commencing from the eye and ex- 

 tending along the tail ; upper surface of limbs with wide-meshed 

 dark brown reticulations ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. millira. 



Total length 127 From end of snout 



Head 10 to vent 42 



AVidth of head G Fore limb 16 



From end of snout Hind limb 28 



to fore limb 16 Tail 85 



Aralo-Caspian desert to Eastern Turkestan. 



a-b. $ . River Lepsa. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 



6. Scapteira grammica. 



Scapteira grammica, Gray, Cat. p. 32. 

 Lacerta grammica, Licht. in Eversm. Ileise, p. 140. 



grammica, part., Licht. Verz. Dnuhl. Mus. Berl. p. 100. 



Scapteira grammica, Wiegm. 1. c. ; Dum. 4'" Bibr. p. 283, pi. liv. 



fig. 1 ; Petei-s, Mem. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61. 

 Podarces (Scapteira) grammica, Strauch, I. c. p. 409. 



Snout long and pointed. Nasals 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 pentagonal ; 

 a minute occipital ; a small elongate shield on the outer border of 

 the parietals ; anterior border of ear scarcely denticulated ; temporal 

 scales granular, smooth ; subocular not reaching the lip, in contact 

 with the sixth to eighth or seventh to ninth upper labials ; the 

 three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar straight, the 

 marginal scales very feebly enlarged. Dorsal scales minutely granular, 

 smooth, or very feebly keeled, larger on the sides. Ventral scales 

 longer than broad, subequal, in oblique longitudinal series ; about 

 40 transverse series, the longest of which contain 20 or 22 plates. 



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