64 LACERTID.&. 
Snout obtuse. Two supraoculars, the first and fourth being 
broken up into numerous small scales and granules; subocular 
bordering the lip; temporal scales keeled; front edge of the ear 
not distinctly denticulated. Dorsal scales strongly keeled, minute 
anteriorly avd on the sides, larger, rhomboidal, strongly imbricate 
and keeled posteriorly. Ventral plates considerably broader than 
long, in straight longitudinal and transverse series ; 10 plates across 
the middle of the body. A median series of broad prwanals, pos- 
terior largest. The hind limb reaches between the collar and the 
ear. Digital denticulations strong, shorter than the corresponding 
diameter of the toe, much more developed on the outer than on the 
inner edge of the fourth toe. Upper caudal scales strongly keeled ; 
basal subcaudals smooth. Yellowish grey above, with four longitu- 
dinal series of squarish brown spots on the nape and the anterior 
part of the body ; these spots more irregular on the hinder part of 
the back ; flanks and limbs with rather indistinct light ocelli. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 215 From end of snout to 
Head ............ 17 WENGE: weighs ene a 73 
Width of head .... 12 Fore limb........ 26 
From end of snout to Hind limb........ 46 
fore limb ...... 29 Tail) peck ess 142 
Egypt, Somaliland. 
7. Acanthodactylus scutellatus. 
Acanthodactylus scutellatus, Gray, Cat. p. 37. 
inornatus, Gray, Cat. p. 38. 
Lacerta grammica, part., Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 100. 
scutellata, Aud. Deser. Egypte, Rept., Suppl. p. 172, pl.i. fig. 7; 
M.-Edw. Ann. Se. Nat. xvi. 1829, pp. 74, 85, pl. vi. fig. 3. 
—— olivieri, part., Aud. 7. c. p. 174, pl. i. fig. 11. 
dumerilii, M.-Edw. 1. c. pp. 75, 85, pl. vii. fig. 9. 
Scapteira inornata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1888, p. 281. 
Meroles dumerilii, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 282. 
Acanthodactylus scutellatus, Dum. & Bibr. v.p. 272 ; Strauch, Erp. 
Alg. p. 86; Steind, Sitzb, Ak, Wien, lxii. i. 1870, p. 331; Bouleng. 
Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 185, and Proe. Zool. Soc. 1881, 
p. 744, pl. xiii. fig. 2; Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1881, p. 401; 
Lataste, Ann. Mus. Genov, (2) ii. 1885, p. 491. 
savignyi, var. schreiberi (non Boul.), Vaill. Miss. Révoil aux 
Pays Comalis, Rept. p. 20. 
Snout acute. Four supraoculars, fourth sometimes broken up; 
subocular not reaching the lip; temporals more or less distinctly 
keeled ; front edge of the ear usually strongly denticulated. Dorsal 
scales very small, rhomboidal, very slightly enlarged towards the 
posterior part of the body. Ventral plates as long as broad, or a 
little longer than broad, in irregular longitudinal and angular trans- 
verse series; 14 to 18 plates in a transverse series in the middle 
of the body. Preanals usually small and irregular, The hind 
limb reaches the tympanum or between the latter and the shoulder. 
