15. SCAPTEIRA. 115 



subtibial shields. 15-17 femoral pores. Upper caudal scales feebly 

 keeled. Saiid-coloured above, with blackish network ; head with 

 symmetrical black markings ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. milliin. 



From snout to vent. . ;55 From end of snout 



Ht'ad 10 to foro limb .... 15 



Width of head 6-5 Fore limb 14 



Hind limb 25 



Northern Baluchistan. 



a. Yg. Between Nushki and Ilelmand. Dr. Aitchison [C.]._ Afghan 



Boundary Commission. 



8. Scapteira ctenodactyla. 



Acanthodactylus capensis, Gray, Cat. p. 37. 

 Lacerta ctenodactylus, Smith, May. N. H. (2) ii. 1838, p. 93. 

 Acanthodactylus capensis, Smith, III. S. Afr., Itept. pi. xxxix. ; A. 



Bum. Cat.'Meth. Rept. p. 127 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18(39, p. 61; 



Bouleny. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 744. 



Snout miich flattened, cuneiform, with projecting angular labial 

 margin. Nasals feebly swollen, lower largel)' in contact with the 

 rostral ; frontonasal separated from the rostral, or touching it with 

 its anterior angle ; frontal small and narrow, grooved anteriorly ; 

 three large supraoculars, anterior in contact with the loreal and the 

 supraciliary, the two others separated from the supraciliaries by a 

 scries of granules ; third sui)raocular bordered posteriorly by several 

 rows of granules ; two or three small shields between the second 

 supraocular and the frontal ; interparietal pentagonal, usually in 

 contact with a small occipital ; a few small elongate shields on the 

 outer border of the parietaJs ; temporal scales granular, obtusely 

 keeled ; car-opening small, partly concealed under an oblong fold of 

 skin ; subocular resting on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, or sixth to 

 eighth upper labials ; the seventh or eighth upper labials much 

 larger than the others ; the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in 

 contact. Anterior gular scales rather large ; collar-edge nearly 

 straight, distinctly serrated. Dorsal scales very small, granular, 

 smooth or obtusely keeled ; a narrow band of larger, rhomboidal, 

 keeled scales on each side of the posterior part of the back and of 

 the sacrum. Yentral plates as long as broad, subequal, in oblique 

 longitudinal series ; 36 or 37 transverse series, the longest of 

 which contain 20 to 24 plates. Pra;anals irregular, small or sub- 

 equal, or postero-median enlarged. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the ear or the eye ; foot a little longer than the distance 

 between the arm and the anterior border of the orbit ; digits 

 compressed, keeled inferiorly, strongly fringed on the outer edge ; 

 three series of subtibial shields, outer largest. 28 to 30 femoral 

 pores. Tail strongly depressed at the base, about once and three 

 fourths as long as head aud body ; upper and lower caudal scales 



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