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MABUYA MEGALURA (Peters) 



Euprepes (Mabuia) megalura Peters, 1878, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 



204, pi. 2, fig. 4 (Taita, K. C). 

 Mabuia megalura BouLENger, 1877, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., vol. 3, p. 195. — 



LovERiDGE, 1920, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 152. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 40927) Wambugu, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 



3 (U.S.N.M. 40965, 42999, 43073) Nairobi, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 



1909. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 42942, 63067) Mt. Kenya to Fort Hall, K. C. (Sm. Afr. 



Exped.) 1909. 



4 (U.S.N.M. 49066-8, 49199) Kaimosi, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 



3 (U.S.N.M. 49050-2) Kenya Colony. (Heller) 1911. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 65914) Kasorongai River, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 



The largest male (No. 49067) measures 185 (53 + 132) mm.; the 

 biggest female (No. 49066) is 224 (69 + 155) mm., but both are sur- 

 passed by specimens which I recorded in 1920. In scutellation this 

 species is one of the least variable of skinks, the mid-body scale rows 

 given by Boulenger as 24 to 26 are 25 to 27 in the present series; only 

 two have 25 rows and one has 27, all three of these variable ones being 

 from Nairobi. 



MABUYA QUINQUETAENIATA (Lichtenstein) 



Scincus quinqueiaeniata Lichtenstein, 1823, Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berlin, p. 103 



(Egypt and Nubia). 

 Mabuia quinqueiaeniata Boulenger, 1889, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., vol. 3, p. 



198 (Arabia to Mozambique and West Coast localities). — Loveridge, 1920, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 153 (Dodoma, T. T.). 

 Mabuia obsti Werner, 1913, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Harab., vol. 30, p. 43 (Kwa 



Mtoro, Dodoma Province, T. T.). — Loveridge, 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, p. 960 (Kisumu, K. C). 

 Mabuia quinqueiaeniata hildebrandtii Sternfeld, 1917, Rept. and Amph. in 



Ergeb. Deut. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1910-11, vol. 1, p. 438, pi. 24, fig. 3 (Taita, 



Kenya Colony). 

 Mabuya quinqueiaeniata Schmidt, 1919, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 39, 



p. 545, pi. 27, figs. 1 and 2, map 19 (Congo localities). 



3 (U.S.N.M. 42217-9) Kenya Colony. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 



5 (U.S.N.M. 42484-5, 42523-4, 43096) Nimule, U. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 



1909. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 48580-1) Mtoto Andei, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 49057-8) ? Guaso Nyiro, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 



7 (U.S.N.M. 49152-4, 49168-9, 49295-6) ? Mount Sagalla, K. C. 



(Heller) 1911. 

 9 (U.S.N.M. 49182-90) Voi, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 49229) Mount Lololokwi, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 



3 (U.S.N.M. 49370-2) ? Merelle River, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 63381) Victoria Nyanza. (Raven) 1920. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 66902) Tndunamara Mt., Nyiro Mtns., K. C. (Mearns) 



1912. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 66904) Malele, K. C. (Mearns) 1912. 



For excellent illustrations of the very different appearance of 

 adult examples of the two sexes, ihe reader is referred to Schmidt's 



