110 LACERTID 2. 
d. Q. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... .. ce cece eee ee —_—* 161 
NCA: oe. 's e539 tae overgates Sw al 14 15 
Width of head .......-...0...0.- 10 11 
From end of snout to forelimb .... 24 26 
From end of snout to vent ........ 60 66 
Fore limb. ....... 0.0 e eee eee 21 23 
Ba B10 Obi s0] o paper meat eee aoe ere arena 40 42 
MP aI fas actuco lances 4 en ts NA soko a a aneledaieee® —_ 95 
South Africa; Comoro Islands. 
a-d. 39. 8. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Types of Eremias 
e. 9. 8. Africa. fordii.) 
IS 8. Africa. 
g. Yg. 8. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
h. Yg. Johanna. C. E. Bewsher, Esq. [C. l 
2. Scapteira depressa. 
Eremias knoxii, part., Gray, Cat. p. 40. 
Lacerta depressa, Merrem, Tent. .p. 63, and Beitr. Gesch. Amph. 
: p. 106, pl. viii. 
Scuntelina depressa, Buetig. Ber. Senckenb. Ges. 1886, p. 12. 
Head short; snout obtuse. Nasals rather strongly swollen, 
lower forming a suture with the rostral ; frontonasal in contact with 
the rostral ; a pair of prefrontals; frontal grooved anteriorly ; three 
supraoculars, anterior smallest and in contact with the loreal and 
the anterior supraciliary; one or two small scales or granules 
between the anterior supraocular and the frontal; a series of 
granules between the two principal supraoculars and the supra- 
ciliaries ; interparietal rhomboidal; parietals forming a suture 
behind the latter ; occipital minute or absent; a band-like shield 
borders the parietals externally; temporal scales granular, not 
keeled ; anterior border of ear denticulated ; subocular not reaching 
the lip, resting on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, or fourth, fifth, 
and sixth upper labials; the two anterior pair of chin-shields in 
contact, the third pair separated by a row of granules. Collar 
curved, perfectly free, with 7 to 9 plates. Dorsal scales granular, 
smooth, rhomboidal, and obtusely keeled towards the sacrum ; 
70 to 75 scales across the middle of the body. Ventral plates in 
straight longitudinal and transverse series; those of the series 
on each side of the median pair a little broader than long, the 
others not broader than long; they form 12 or 14 longitudinal 
and 31 to 35 transverse series. Praanal plates small, sub- 
equal. The adpressed hind limb reaches the tympanum, or half- 
way between the latter and the shoulder; foot as long as the 
* Tail lost. 
