Macmalionia. 373 



Readies a length of 87 millim. from suout to vent, tail 161, accord- 

 ing to Boettger. The figure in Fedtschenko's Eeise represents a 

 specimen 105 millim. long from snout to vent. 



Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 



<J E. Hi 66 59 20 39 22 34 16-15 20 7 



? E. Lepsa 56 63 22 40 18 34 17 20 8 



Yg. „ 36 60 22 42 23 31 16-17 21 7 



Hgr. Michailovo, Transcaspia . . 45 56 22 40 16 35 18-19 21 7 



<J Molle Kary „ . . 65 50 20 40 18 33 18-17 22 7 



„ Lower Morgab „ . . 76 50 22 40 20 34 18 21 7-8 



Habitat. — Aralo-Caspian Steppes, Transcaspia, Bokhara, and 

 Russian Turkestan. 



20. MACMAHONIA. 



Macmalionia, Bouleng. Journ. Zool. Ees. iii, 1918, p. 2. 



Differing from Scaj^tira, s. str., only in the absence of 

 femoral pores. 

 A single species. 



1. MACMAHONIA APOROSCELES. 



Scaptira aporosceles, Alcock &. Finn, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixv, ii, 

 1896, p. 559, pi. xiii. 



Head and body 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 slightly swollen nasals, a little longer than the 

 postocular part of the head ; canthus rostralis sharp, loreal i*egion 

 vertical, slightly concave. Pileus twice as long as broad. Hind limb 

 reaching between the ear and the eye or between the collar and the 

 ear * ; foot IJ to \^ times the length of the head ; toes loug, flattened. 

 T;iil \\ to 2 times as long as head and body, depressed at the Ijase. 



Upper head-shields smooth ; rostral slightly deeper than broad, 

 narrower beneath than above ; nasals in contact behind the rostral, 

 the suture between them \ to f the length of the frontonasal, which 



* Or the eye, according to Aleoct and Finn. 



