362 Lacertidse. 



5 or 6 pairs of chin-sliields, the 3 first meeting in the middle * ; 

 36 to 51 gular scales in a straight line between the symphysis of the 

 chin-shields and the median collar-plate ; no gular fold. Collar 

 straight, with 12 to 16 small plates. 



Scales granular and smooth, increasing in size on the lower part of 

 the side and passing gradually into the ventrals, 90 to 110 across the 

 middle of the body. Ventral plates as long as broad or longer than 

 broad, tessellated or forming oblique longitudinal series, in 40 to 46 

 transverse series, the longest of which contains 24 to 28 plates.f 

 Preanal region covered with small irregular plates. 



Upper surface of fore limb with rather large, rhombic, keeled scales. 

 Upper sm-face of tibia with rhombic keeled scales anteriorly, graduating 

 into small smooth granules further back ; lower surface with one row 

 of transversely enlarged plates and 3 rows of smaller plates. 19 to 

 23 femoral pores % on each side, the two series narrowly separated in 

 the middle. Fingers with 4 series of scales, symmetrically and rather 

 strongly serrated on both sides, feebly unicarinate beneath ; toes with 

 3 series of scales, the outer forming a rather strong fringe, the sub- 

 digital lamellae strongly keeled § and 22 to 24 in number under the 

 fourth toe. 



Upper caudal scales rhombic, rather strongly and diagonally keeled, 

 lower, on the base of the tail, smooth or very obtusely keeled ; a band 

 of granules, continued from the back, along the middle of the base of 

 the tail ; 40 to 50 scales in the fourth or fifth vrhorl behind the post- 

 anal granules. 



G-reyish or sand-colour above, with a darker network enclosing 

 round light spots; sometimes a rather indistinct dark vertebral 

 streak; tail with 3 blacki.sh longitudinal streaks in the basal third. 

 A female specimen in the Paris Museum is dotted with blackish 

 above; a broad dark lateral baud, spotted with whitish and edged 

 above and beneath by a narrow whitish streak. The voung is 

 described by Werner as closely dotted with dark and light above ; 

 upper lip and lower surface of tail orange-red. Lower parts white. 



* 2 on one side and 3 on tlie other in one specimen. 



t 20 to 28 according to Werner. 



X 16 to 24 according- to Werner. 



§ In describing the subdigital lamellae of the toes as smooth, Stratich has 

 evidently made a mistake in their orientation, taking the median keel and the 

 serration formed by it to represent the outer border of the toe. I am inclined 

 to think that the flattened toes of S. grammica are due to a rotation of the axis 

 of the digit, owing to which the outer half has come to represent the whole 

 lower surface. 



