15. scarrerra. 113 
granular, smooth ; edge of ear not denticulated ; subocular border- 
ing the lip, between the sixth and seventh upper labials; the three 
anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar curved, perfectly 
free, with about nine plates. Dorsal scales minutely granular, 
smooth, larger on the sides. Ventral plates as long as broad, sub- 
equal, in oblique longitudinal series; 34 transverse series, the 
Jongest of which contain 16 plates. Preanals small, irregular. 
. The adpressed hind limb reaches the collar; foot slightly longer 
than the distance between the arm and the anterior border of 
the orbit; digits not depressed, keeled inferiorly, moderately fringed 
laterally ; the ungual lamelle much enlarged, forming a suboval 
disk ; one series of very large and one of small subtibial plates. 
12 or 13 femoral pores. Tail about twice as long as head and 
body ; caudal scales feebly keeled. Pale sandy grey above; back 
with small dark brown dots or vermiculations confluent into 
longitudinal lines; sides with three regular dark longitudinal 
streaks, median broadest and commencing from the eye and ex- 
tending along the tail; upper surface of limbs with wide-meshed 
dark brown reticulations ; lower surfaces white. 
millim, millim. 
Total length...... 127 From end of snout 
Head .......... 10 to vent ..-..... 42 
Width of head .... 6 Fore limb ........ 16 
From end of snout Hind limb ........ 28 
to forelimb ..,. 16 Pat chy ame yer 85 
Aralo-Caspian desert to Eastern Turkestan. 
a-b. 2. River Lepsa. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 
6. Scapteira grammica. 
Scapteira grammica, Gray, Cat. p. 32. 
Lacerta grammica, Licht. in Eversm. Reise, p. 140. 
—— grammica, part., Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 100. 
Scapteira grammica, Wiegm. l.c.; Dum. §& Bibr. p. 283, pl. liv. 
fig. 1; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 61. 
Podarces (Scapteira) grammica, Strauch, I. ¢. p. 409. 
Snout long and pointed. Nasals 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 pentagonal ; 
a minute occipital ; a small elongate shield on the outer border of 
the parietals ; anterior border of ear scarcely denticulated ; temporal 
scales granular, smooth; subocular not reaching the lip, in contact 
with the sixth to eighth or seventh to ninth upper labials; the 
three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. Collar straight, the 
marginal scales very feebly enlarged. Dorsal scales minutely granular, 
smooth, or very feebly keeled, larger on the sides. Ventral scales 
longer than broad, subequal, in oblique longitudinal series ; about 
40 transverse series, the longest of which contain 20 or 22 plates. 
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