Scaptirn. 361 



5. SCAPTIKA CUNEIROSTRIS. 



Podnrces (Scapfeira) cuiieirostris, Straucli, Mrl. Biol. Ac St. 

 Pctersb. vi, 1867, p. 411. 



Saurites (Eremias) cuneirostris, Peters, Mou, Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 60. 



Scapteira ciineirostris, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 116 (1887) ; Werner, 

 Jen. Denkschr. iv, 1910, p. 339, pi. vi, fig. 1. 



Head and body mucli depressed. Head about 1^ to 1^ times as 

 long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of 

 the eye and the tympanum, its length 3 '5 to 3 J times in length to 

 vent; snout much flattened, obtusely pointed, with swollen nasals and 

 projecting angular labial margin, as long as postocular part of 

 head ; canthus rostralis sharp, loreal region very concave. Pileus 

 twice as long as broad. Ear-opening partly concealed undei- an 

 oblique dermal fold. Neck as broad as the head. Hind limb reaching 

 the ear (female) or the eye (male) ; foot 1^ to H times as long as the 

 head ; fingers cylindrical, toes slender, compressed. Tail 1^ to If 

 times as long as head and body, much flattened at the base. 



Upper head-shields rather convex, smooth ; rostral forming a suture 

 w^ith the frontonasal, separating the nasals ; frontonasal a little broader 

 than long ; prefrontals as long as broad or a little longer than broad, 

 forming a median suture ; frontal as long as its distance fro!n the 

 rostral, li to 1^ times as long as broad, narrow behind, grooved in 

 front, in contact with the supraoculars or separated from them by a 

 series of small scales * ; parietals as long as broad or a little broader 

 than long, rounded behind and on the sides ; interparietal smaller 

 than the frontoparietals, followed by a series of 3 or a group of 4 or 

 5 small shields or granules separating the parietals f ; 3 large supra- 

 oculars, forming sutures with each other, the first as long as or a little 

 shorter than the second and in contact with the frontonasal, the second 

 loreal, and the first superciliary, sometimes also with the frontal ; 

 third supraocular followed by a granular area ; a series of granules 

 between the second and third supraoculars and the superciliaries, which 

 are 6 or 7 in number, first longest. Lower nasal broadly in contact 

 with the rostral, resting on the first and second upper labials ; anterior 

 loreal as long as the second ; subocular resting on the 5th and 6th, 6th 

 and 7th, or 5th to 7th upper labials, J lower border straight. Temporal 

 scales granular, smooth, lower larger and sometimes obtusely keeled. 



* 2 to 6 scales in the specimens examined by me, 1 to 7 in those examined 

 by Werner.— Sometimes also a few granular scales between the first and second 

 supraoculars. 



t This appears to be normal, judging from Werner's notes on 14 specimens, 

 bvit Strauch describes the occipital as represented by one granule. 



X Exceptionally 4th and 5th, according to Werner. 



