Scaptira. 371 



n. SCAPTIRA URAMMICA. 



Lacerfa grammica, Liehtenst. iu Eversm. Reise, p. 140 (182o). 

 Lacerta grammica, part., Licliteust. Verz. Doubl. Mas. Berl. p. 100 

 (1823). 



Scapteira grammica, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 9 (1834) ; Uuin. & Bibr. 

 Erp. Gen. v, p. 283, pi. liv, fig. 1 (1839) ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 32 

 (1845) ; Peters, Moii. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61 ; Bouleiig. Cat. Liz. iii, 

 p. 113 (1887) ; Boettg. Zool. Jalirb. iii, 1888, p. 912 ; Zander, Zool. 

 Gart. xxxvi, 1896, p. 327 ; Nikolsky, Fedtschenko's Reise, Zuol. ii, 

 p;irt vii, p. 39, pL vii, fig. 1 (1899) ; Elpatiebski, Amph. Rept. 

 Aral Exped. p. 21 (1903) ; Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 173 (1905). 



Podarces (Scapteira) grammica, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Pctersb. 

 vi, 1867, p. 409. 



Head and body rather depressed. Head If to If 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 

 acutely pointed, with swollen nasals, Ih times as long as the post- 

 ocular part of the head; canthus rostralis shai'p, loreal region vertical, 

 slightly concave. Pileus 2 to 2|: times as long as broad. Hind limb 

 reaching the shoulder, the collar, or between the collar and the ear ; 

 foot Ig- to 1^ times the length of the head ; toes long, flattened. Tail 

 not quite twice as long as head and body, depressed at the base. 



Upi)er head-shields smooth or more or less rugose ; rostral a little 

 deeper than broad, narrower beneath than above ; nasals in contact 

 behind the rostral, the sutiu-e between them ■§• to ^ the length of the 

 frontonasal, which is bi'oader than long ; prefrontals longer than 

 broad, forming an extensive median suture ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the nasals, Ig to 2 times as long as broad, narrow 

 behind, grooved in front ; parietals broader than long ; interparietal 

 smaller than the frontoparietals, followed by a series of granular 

 shields separating the parietals.* Two large supraoculars, preceded 

 by granules and small shields, one of which may be termed a first 

 supraocular, but always separated from the large shields by a series 

 of granules ; a small, band-like posterior supraocular, separated from 

 the preceding by a series of granules ; a series of granular scales on 

 the inner and outer borders of the tAvo large supraoculars ; 6 to 8 

 superciliaries, first longest. Lower nasal not reaching the rostral, 

 resting on the three anterior upper labials ; anterior loreal longer 

 than deep or deeper than long, shorter than the second ; subocular 



* These may be absent, according to Boettger, and Zander conld find no trace 

 of an occipital in the 8 Transcaspian specimens examined by him. 



