114 LACERTID. 
Preanals small, irregular. The adpressed hind limb reaches the 
collar ; foot as long as the distance between the arm and the an- 
terior border of the orbit; digits flattened, smooth inferiorly, 
strongly fringed laterally; the ungual lamelle much enlarged, 
forming a suboval disk ; subtibial plates rather small, outer series 
largest. 15 to 17 femoral pores. Tail not quite twice as long as 
head and body; upper caudal scales rather feebly keeled. Greyish 
above, with blackish network enclosing round lighter spots; lower 
surfaces white. 
willim. millim. 
Total lengthy. .ccac.ccn a esate en eee 176 144 
GAG, coves acta sede Seg ean wan 17 14 
Width of head.................. ll. 9 
From end of snout to fore limb .... 26 22 
From end of snout to vent ........ 66 56 
Fore mis x ssh cise pope lacee Sea ane 23 20 
SELTING TAT asides inca asaiael coavaa plan aay tee 40 33 
MAI seer jrcet diac hen/ scones teeters aa roans tan 110 88 
Aralo-Caspian desert to Eastern Turkestan. 
ad. River Ili. St. Petersburg Museum fe 
b-c. 2 & hor. River Lepsa. St. Petersburg Museum [E.]. 
7. Scapteira acutirostris. 
Snout conical, acutely pointed; loreal region nearly vertical. 
Nasals slightly swollen, lower not reaching the rostral, upper 
forming a long median suture; frontal grooved anteriorly ; three 
large supraoculars, forming sutures with one another, first in contact 
with the first supraciliary, the second loreal, the prefrontal, and the 
frontal ; second and third supraoculars separated from the supra- 
ciliaries and from the frontal by a series of granules; two or three 
minute granules between the first and second supraoculars ; a small 
band-like posterior supraocular, separated from the others by 
granules ; interparietal pentagonal ; no occipital; parictals forming 
a suture behind the interparietal ; no enlarged scales on the outer 
border of the parietals; temporal scales granular, smooth; no 
auricular denticulation ; subocular not reaching the lip, resting on 
the fifth, sixth, and seventh upper labials; the three anterior pairs 
of chin-shields in contact. Collar straight, the marginal scales 
feebly enlarged. Dorsal scales minutely granular, smooth, equal. 
Ventrals equilateral or longer than broad, in oblique longitudinal 
series; 30 transverse series, the longest of which contain about 
20 plates. A very large preanal plate, about twice as broad 
as long. The adpressed hind limb reaches the posterior border 
of the orbit; foot as long as the distance between the arm and 
the anterior loreal; digits flattened, smooth or indistinctly keeled 
inferiorly, strongly fringed laterally; the ungual lamellae much 
enlarged, forming a suboval disk; a series of large transverse 
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