84 SCINCIDiE. 



continuous or interrupted light longitudinal lines, greenisb-wliite 

 beneath (orange-red in life). 



From snout to vent 05 millim. ; tail 120. 



Nicobars, Malay Peninsula (Perak, Selangor, Singapore), 

 Sumatra, Borneo, Java. 



84. Mabiiia multifasciata. 



Scincus multifasciatus, Kuhl, Beitr. z. Zool. u. vergl. Anat. p. 126 



(1820). 

 Euprepes riifescens, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 652 



(1847) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 79 (part.) (1864). 

 Mabuia multifasciata, Bouleug-. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 186 (1887) ; id. 



Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 191 ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 645 j 



Annandale, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) i, p. 341 (1905). 



A postnasal ; anterior loreal not deeper than the second ; supra- 

 nasals frequently in contact behind the rostral, or Jiarrowly 

 separated ; praefrontals forming a median suture ; four supra- 

 oculars, five or six supraciliaries ; interparietal entirely separating 

 the parietals ; 4 (rarely 3) labials antei-ior to the subocular. Ear- 

 opening roundish or oval, as large as or a little smaller than a 

 lateral scale, usually with a few very small lobules anteriorly. 

 30 to 34 (usually 32) scales round the body, dorsals tricarinate 

 (rarely quinquecarinate). Scales on tibia mostly tricarinate. The 

 hind limb reaches the wrist or the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb. Colour very variable. Brown or olive above, uniform or 

 with a dark brown lateral band, or with dark spots, or with a 

 light dorso-lateral band, or with a red lateral band or blotch ; sides 

 frequently dark brown with light, black-edged ocelli. Bright 

 sulphur or pale greenish below, throat sometimes whitish or bluish 

 white. 



Prom snout to vent 130 millim. ; tail 220. 



Common from Burma and Siam to the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago and New Guinea. Called "Sun Lizard" or " Grrass 

 Lizard " in the Straits Settlements. Capt. Flower observes that 

 numbers are to be seen when the sun comes out after heavy rain, 

 sunning themselves in the grass and on stones and showing off 

 their brilliant metallic colours. By far the commonest Scink 

 in the Peninsula. 



85. Mabuia siamensis, 



Eumeces siamejisis, Giinth. Rept. Brit.Iud. p. 91 (1864). 



Mabuia sianmisis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 188 (1887) ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S. 1899, p. 647; Bouleng. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 158 

 (1903) ; id. Journ. Fed. Mai. St. Mus. iii, p. 07 (1908). 



A postnasal; anterior loreal not deeper than second; supra- 

 nasals frequently in contact behind tlie rostral ; prsefrontals often 

 forming a median suture ; four supraoculars, 6 (rarely 5 or 7) supra- 

 ciliaries ; interparietal entirely separating the parietals ; 4 labials 



