Scapiira. 



Measurements (in millimetres) ; 



From end of snout to vent . 



„ „ ,, fore limb 



Length of head 

 Width of head . 

 Depth of head 

 Pore limb 

 Hind limb 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 



363 



Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 



3 Damaraland .... 58 99 28 48 16 46 22-23 23 7 



45 102 26 45 13 51 22 22 6 



$ Great Namaqualand, L.M. . 50 110 24 46 13 49 20-21 22 6 



P.M. 49 102 24 47 13 47 21-19 24 6 



$ S. Africa . . 55 90 24 42 14 36 19-22 24 6 



Habitat. — Damaraland and Qi-eat Namaqualand. 



Closely allied to the preceding species and still more highly specialized. 



6. SCAPTIEA LINEOLATA. 



Scapteira scripta (non Strauch), Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, 

 p. 914. 



Scapteira scripta, part., Zander, Zool. G-arfc. xxxvi, 1896, p. 303. 



Scapteira lineolata, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. i, 

 1897, p. 330, and iv, 1899, p. 395. 



Scapteira grum-grzimailoi, Bedriaga, in Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss. 

 p. 484 (1905) ; Eli^atjevsky & Sabanejev, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxiv, 

 1906, p. 254 ; Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. x, 1907, p. 31 ; 

 Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. xvi, 1911, p. 282 ; Bedriaga, 

 Wiss. Ees. Przewalski Eeis., Amph. Eept. p. 657, pi. viii, fig. 10 (1912). 



Head and body rather strongly depressed. Head \\ to \% times 

 as long as broad, its length SJ to 4^3 times in length to vent, its 

 depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye and the 

 tympanum ; snout pointed, with strongly swollen nasals, as long as 

 the postocular part of the head, with sharp canthus and vertical, 

 grooved loreal region. Pileus twice as 'long as broad. Neck a little 

 narrower than the head. Hind limb reaching the shoulder, the 

 pollar, or the eye ; foot IJ to 1| times as loug as the head ; digits 



