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feebly keeled, laterals more strongly ; the scales on the upper sur- 
face of the depressed portion of the tail. small. Brownish or 
orange above, sides with a broad dark brown or tile-red band edged 
with whitish ; sides and limbs with whitish spots; lower surfaces 
yellow. 
é- Q. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ....... pctv gw get acer 214 267 
Head ..... wi cidis est waa cea ees 21 25 
Width of head .............0008- 15 20 
From end of snout to fore limb..... , 386 37 
From end of snout to vent .,...... 78 97 
Fore: dimb: 3s26 eee he ve Se oe kate eee 29 34 
Bind limbs vee eee ce eRe Oe 58 70 
Pail.) ss vaadws ase aaths exis Bae , 136 170 
South Africa, 
a-b. o Q, Great Namaqualand. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Types of 
Acanthodactylus capensis.) 
Gos Beaufort West. Rev. G. H.R. Fisk [P.]. 
9, Scapteira cuneirostris. 
Podarces (Scapteira) cuneirostris, Strauch, Mél. Biol. Ac. St. Pétersb, 
vi. 1867, p. 411. 
Saurites (Eremias) cuneirostris, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1869, p. 60. 
Snout much flattened, cuneiform, with projecting angular labial 
margin. Nasals swollen, lower largely in contact with the rostral; 
frontonasal forming a suture with the rostral; frontal scarcely 
grooved; 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; a series of two to six 
small shields or granules between the second supraocular and 
the frontal; interparietal rhomboidal; one or several granules 
represent the occipital; a few feebly enlarged supratemporals bor- 
dering the parietals; temporal scales obtusely keeled ; ear-opening 
small, partly concealed under an oblique fold of skin ; subocular 
resting on the sixth and seventh, or the fifth, sixth, and seventh upper 
labials; the two or three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. 
Gular scales very small; collar-edge nearly straight, feebly serrated, 
with very small plates. Dorsal scales minutely granular, smooth. 
Ventrals small, as long as broad, subequal, in oblique longitudinal 
series; 42 to 48 transverse series, the longest of which contain 
26 to 30 plates. Praanals small, irregular. The adpressed hind 
limb reaches the eye; foot a little longer than the distance between 
the arm and the anterior border of the orbit; digits compressed, 
feebly keeled inferiorly, strongly fringed on the outer edge ; several 
series of subtibial shields, outer largest. 19 to 22 femoral pores, 
