114 LACERTin.B. 



Prfeanals small, irregular. The adpressed hind limb reaches the 

 collar ; foot as long as the distance between the arm and the an- 

 terior border of tlio orbit ; digits flattened, smooth inferiorly, 

 strongly fringed laterally ; the ungual lamelUie much enlarged, 

 forming a suboval disk ; subtibial plates rather small, outer series 

 largest. 15 to 17 femoral pores. Tail not quite twice as long as 

 head and body ; upper caudal scales rather feebly keeled. Greyish 

 above, with blackish network enclosing round lighter spots; lower 

 surfaces white. 



7. Scapteira acutirostris. 



Snout conical, acutely pointed ; loreal region nearly vertical. 

 Nasals slightly swollen, lower not reaching the rostral, upper 

 forming a long median suture ; frontal grooved anteriorly ; three 

 large supraoculars, forming sutures with one another, first in contact 

 ■with the first supraciliary, the second loreal, the pra;frontal, and the 

 frontal ; second and third supraoculars separated from the supra- 

 ciliaries and from the frontal by a series of granules ; two or three 

 minute granules between the first and second supraoculars ; a small 

 band-like posterior supraocular, separated from the others by 

 granules ; interparietal pentagonal ; no occipital ; parietals forming 

 a suture behind the interparietal ; no enlarged scales on the outer 

 border of the parietals ; temporal scales granular, smooth ; no 

 auricular denticulation ; subocular not reaching the lip, resting on 

 the fifth, sixth, and seventh upper labials ; the three anterior pairs 

 of chin-shields in contact. Collar straight, the marginal scales 

 feebly enlarged. Dorsal scales minutely granular, smooth, e(]ual. 

 Ventrals equilateral or longer than broad, in oblique longitudinal 

 series ; 35 transverse series, the longest of which contain about 

 20 plates. A very large prseanal plate, about twice as broad 

 as long. The adpressed hind limb reaches the posterior border 

 of the orbit ; foot as long as the distance between the arm and 

 the anterior loreal ; digits flattened, smooth or indistinctly keeled 

 inferiorly, strongly fringed laterally ; the ungiial lamellae much 

 enlarged, forming a suboval disk ; a series of large transverse 



