Scaptira. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent . 



„ „ fore limb 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb . 

 Foot .... 

 Tail .... 



3C3 



^ Damaraland 



Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



1. 



. 58 



45 



? Great Namaqiialand, L.M. . . 50 



P.M. . . 49 

 $ S. Africa . . .55 



Habitat. — Damaraland and Gi'eat Namaqualand. 



Closely allied to the preceding species and still more highly specialized. 



n. SCAPTIRA LINEOLATA. 



Scai^teira scripta (non Strauch), Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, 

 p. 914. 



Scapteira scripta, part., Zander, Zool. Gart. xxxvi, 1896, Y). 303. 



Scapteira lineolata, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pctersb. i, 

 1897, p. 330, and iv, 1899, p. 395. 



Scapteira grum-grzimailoi, Bedriaga, in Nilcolsky, Herp. Koss. 

 p. 484 (1905) ; Elpatjevsky & Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxiv, 

 1906, p. 254; Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. x, 1907, p. 31 ; 

 Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. xvi, 1911, p. 282; Bedriaga, 

 "SViss. Ees. Przewalski Reis., Amph. Rept. p. 657, pi. viii, fig. 10 (1912). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head 1^ to 1| times 

 as long as broad, its length 3| to 4| times in length to vent, its 

 depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and the 

 tympanum ; snout pointed, with strongly swollen nasals, as long as 

 the postocular part of the head, with sharp canthus and vertical, 

 grooved loreal region. Pileus twice as long as broad. Neck a little 

 narrower than the head. Hind limb reaching the shouldei-, the 

 Qollar, or the eye; foot IJ to If times as long as tlie head; digits 



