15, scapTrrra. F 115 
subtibial shields. 15-17 femoral pores. Upper caudal scales feebly 
keeled. Sand-coloured above, with blackish network; head with 
symmetrical black markings ; lower surfaces white. 
millim. millim. 
From snout to vent.. 35 From end of snout 
Head, icky aia 10 to fore limb .... 15 
Width of head...... 65 Fore limb ........ 14 
Hind limb ... .. 25 
Northern Baluchistan. 
a. Yg. Between Nushki and Helmand. Dr. Aitchison [C.]. Afghan 
; * Boundary Commission, 
8. Scapteira ctenodactyla. 
Acanthodactylus capensis, Gray, Cat. p. 87. 
Lacerta ctenodactylus, Smith, Mag. N. H. (2) ii. 1888, p. 98. 
Acanthodactylus capensis, Smith, Ill. 8. Afr., Rept. pl. xxxix.; A. 
Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 127; Peters, Mon. Beri. Ac. 1869, p. 61; 
Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 744. 
Snout much flattened, cuneiform, with projecting angular labial 
margin. Nasals feebly swollen, lower largely in contact with the 
rostral ; frontonasal separated from the rostral, or touching it with 
its anterior angle; frontal small and narrow, grooved anteriorly ; 
three large supraoculars, anterior in contact with the loreal and the 
supraciliary, the two others separated from the supraciliaries by a 
series of granules ; third supraocular bordered posteriorly by several 
rows of granules; two or three small shields between the second 
supraocular and the frontal; interparietal pentagonal, usually in 
contact with a small occipital ; a few small elongate shields on the 
outer border of the parietals; temporal scales granular, obtusely 
keeled; ear-opening small, partly concealed under an oblong fold of 
skin; subocular resting on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, or sixth to 
eighth upper labials; the seventh or eighth upper labials much 
larger than the others; the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in 
contact. Anterior gular scales rather large; collar-edge nearly 
straight, distinctly serrated. Dorsal scales very small, granular, 
smooth or obtusely keeled ; a narrow band of larger, rhomboidal, 
keeled scales on each side of the posterior part of the back and of 
the sacrum. Ventral plates as long as broad, subequal, in oblique 
longitudinal series; 36 or 37 transverse series, the longest of 
which contain 20 to 2+ plates. Przeanals irregular, small or sub- 
equal, or postero-median enlarged. The adpressed hind limb 
reaches the ear or the eye; foot a little longer than the distance 
between the arm and the anterior border of the orbit; digits 
compressed, keeled inferiorly, strongly fringed on the outer edge; 
three series of subtibial shields, outer largest. 28 to 30 femoral 
pores. Tail strongly depressed at the base, about once and three 
fourths as long as head and body; upper and lower one scales 
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