112 LACERTIDE, 
and two or three of small subtibial plates. 21 to 23 femoral pores. 
Upper caudal scales strongly keeled. Sandy grey above, with 
blackish reticulation ; lower surfaces white. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- From end of snout 
produced) ...... 118 to vent ........ 47 
Head ose cseceacenes 14 Fore limb ........ 20 
Width ofhead.... 9 Hind limb........ 37 
From end of snout 
to fore limb .... 19 
Damaraland, Benguela. 
4. Scapteira reticulata. 
Scapteira P reticulata, Bocage, Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, 
p. 225. 
Podarces (Scapteira) reticulata, Strauch, Mél. Biol. Ac. St. Pétersb. 
vi. 1867, p. 424. 
Head narrow, with elongate and pointed snout. Nasals swollen; 
two large supraoculars, bordered with granules externally and 
posteriorly, preceded by a large shield placed between two very 
small ones; no occipital; subocular bordering the lip, between 
the seventh and eighth labials ; anterior margin of ear furnished 
with three denticulations. Scales on the nape and the anterior half 
of the back very small, juxtaposed, rounded, smooth; on the 
posterior half of the back the scales become larger and more 
distinctly keeled and imbricate. Ventrak plates quadrilateral, 
arranged in longitudinal and transverse series; the widest of the 
latter includes 18 plates. A large median preeanal, surrounded by 
smaller ones. Digits compressed, smooth beneath. Femoral pores 
20 to 22. Caudal scales keeled. Fulvous above, reticulated 
with dark brown; three blackish streaks, more or less interrupted, 
along the tail; lower surfaces white. 
millim. 
Total length ................ 150 
Gad: acca gs dda ced eae ee 14 
dt een 99 
Mossamedes, W. Africa. 
5. Scapteira scripta. 
Podarces (Scapteira) scripta, Strauch, Mél. Biol. Ac. St. Pétersb. vi. 
1867, p. 424. 
Snout pointed. Nasals feebly swollen, lower not reaching the 
rostral; frontonasal separated from the rostral; frontal grooved 
anteriorly; two large supraoculars, entirely surrounded with 
granules; a small posterior supraocular; interparietal rhomboidal ; 
no occipital; no band-like supratemporal shield; temporal scales 
