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Midbody scale rows 37; parietal present; gular granules between 

 chin shields and collar 30; femoral pores 12 + 12. Total length 342 

 (97 + 245) mm. 



Trinomials are used on account of L. e. langi Schmidt (1919) of 

 the eastern Congo, which Boulenger (1920, p. 332) unjustifiably 

 synonymized with echhiata. The type of the latter (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 5995) almost certainly came from Liberia, for it was described 

 at the same time as Cophoscincus dura^ whose type (U.S.N.M. No. 

 6996) was also said to be from West Africa yet is known only from 

 Liberia, 



MABUYA BLANDINGII (Hallowell) 



1844. Euprepes Bland'mgii Haixowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1844, 



p. 58 (Liberia). 

 1857. Euprcpes fremitus Hvlloweix, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1857, 



p. 50 (Liberia). 



9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109024-32), Gibi 



1 (U.S.N.M. No. 1092S5), Bromley 



1 (U.S.N.M. No. 109581), Bendaja 



1 (U.S.N.M. No. 109633), Harbel 



Midbody scale rows 30-34; dorsals with 3 (in young) to 5, and 

 rarely even 7, keels ; supranasals separated in five specimens, in con- 

 tact in eight; prefrontals separated in four examples, in contact in 

 nine ; supraoculars 4 ; supraciliaries 3-6. The largest, a 5 (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 109295), measures only 182 (74+108) mm. In its oviducts (April 

 10-16) are 4 eggs, measuring 12 by 7 mm., but without embryos. 



A good deal of variation is displayed in the matter of coloration. 

 The dark brown lateral band is faintly edged above with white in a 

 young skink, below by a sharply defined white band in four speci- 

 mens, by a series of white flecks, or altogether lacking, in others. 

 Below, pure white. 



COPHOSCINCOPUS DURUS (Cope) 



1862. Tiliqua dura Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 190 (Western 



Africa). 

 1884. Cophoscincus simulans Vaillant, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 8, 



p. 170 (Couacrou, Ivory Coast). 



1 (U.S.N.M. No. 109674), Gibi 



The type of this interesting, though common, Liberian skink is in 

 the National collection (U.S.N.M. No. 5996). In all probability it 

 came from Liberia, as the only record of its occurrence elsewhere is 

 that of Vaillant, whose type locality I have failed to trace, unless it 

 be Kurako or Kurukoro, north of Ganta, in what is now French 

 Guinea. Owing to an unfortunate accident, the Gibi specimen is too 

 dried to be of much taxonomic value. 



