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Digital denticulations strong, at least as long as the diameter of the 
corresponding part of the toe, much more developed on the outer 
than on the inner edge of the fourth toe. Greyish above, dotted 
or reticulated with darker; young with or without white longitu- 
dinal lines. 
millim. millim. 
Total lengths. :sc:ccee saanee vacua 173 144 
FG sce 4 ate ec lho wih Se cai ele ios 16 13 
Width of head................080. 12 10 
From end of snout to fore limb ...... 23 21 
From end of snout to vent .......... 63 57 
BOL6 LM s iscs hitraw owe See Hn Eade 23 20 
nd MAD ei ee deace wie daeeie Wace oe eae bees 44 35 
ol AU array Sere tt ete Reece gee rater eer ere 110 87 
Senegambia, North Africa, Somaliland, Sinaitic Peninsula, Syria. 
Lataste has distinguished three varieties, which do not seem to 
me to deserve special denominations: the typical form (var. scutel- 
lata), of which measurements are given above, from Egypt and 
Syria; a smaller variety, var. ewigua, Lat. (=<inornata, Gray), 
apparently restricted to the Sahara; and var. dumerilii, M.-Edw., 
from Senegambia. 
a-e. 3 & yg Senegambia. Baron v. Maltzan [C.]. 
S-9g. Her. Cape Verd. M. Boucard [C.]. 
h. Q. Tugeurt, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.]. 
ig. Bled Ahmar, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.}. 
kn. 3 Q Hadjira, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.]. 
o-r. SQ Laghouat, Algeria. M. Lataste [P. ]. 
8. 9. Ouargla, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.]. 
tv. do. Bou Saada, Algeria. M. Lataste [P.]. 
w. 2. Tripoli. J. Ritchie, Esq. [P.]. (Type 
of Scapteira inornata.) 
a 3. Egypt. 
y-%. SQ Me Bina, 
a-B,y. 3Q. Jerusalem. 
6-8. S. Jaffa. 
8. Acanthodactylus pardalis. 
Acanthodactylus savignyi, Gray, Cat. p. 87. 
Lacerta pardalis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 99 *. 
P Lacerta deserti (non Lepéch.), M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. 1829, 
pp. 79, 86, pl. vi. fig. 8, and pl. viii. fig. 6. 
Scapteira maculata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 281. ; 
Acanthodactylus savignyi, part., Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 746; Guichen. 
Explor. Sc. Alg., Rept. p. 14. 
Zootoca deserti, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 470, and 1864, p. 488. 
Acanthodactylus savignyi, Licht. Nom. Rept. Mus. Berol. p. 15; 
Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 36; Lataste, Ann. Mus, Gienov. (2) ii. 1885, 
. 483. 
tsharta deserti, Strauch, 1. e. p. 82. 
* Types (nos. 1072, 1074, 1075, 1076) examined. 
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