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a keeled character in the scale, so that it would appear that 
they are perhaps modifications of the carinated form of scales. It 
should be borne in mind, however, that this form notwith- 
standing its grooved scales, is a truly smooth scaled scink. 
To revert, however, to the significance of the large dorsal 
plates in the form under consideration; it does not appear to 
me to merit generic status, because another and distinct species 
has recently come under my observation, in which there are two 
rows of enlarged dorsal shields, each about half the size of the 
large scales of the type of Hurylepis. Mabouia with the foregoing 
facts before us may be defined as follows :— 
Mazovr, Fitzinger. 
Head conical, scales smooth and finely grooved;-’ dorsal scales 
either of uniform size or enlarged. Tail long, round and smooth 
without spines ; lower eyelid scaly. Nostril either in a single 
plate or between two plates, an anterior and posterior. Teeth 
numerous, conical, somewhat laterally compressed. Palatine teeth. 
Palatine notch broad on a level with the eye. Limbs moderately or 
well developed, rather for apart. Toes, 5, 5. 
The species which has given rise to these remarks may be 
characterized as follows: 
MasoviaA THNIOLATA, Blyth. 
Eurylepis teniolatus, Blyth, Journ, As. Soc. xxii pp. 739, 740. 
Plestiodon scutatus, Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus, 1868, pp. 25, 26, 
Humeces scutatus, Theob., Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1870, p. 73. 
Body rather elongated, limbs moderately developed and far 
apart, the distance between them equalling five times the interval _ 
between the shoulder and ear. ‘Tail 12rds of the length between 
the snout and the vent: cylindrical, regularly tapered. Supranasals 
transversely elongated forming a suture behind the rostral. Frontal 
transversely octagonal. Post-frontals pentagonal, broad externally 
but narrowing towards the common, broad, mesial suture. Vertical 
elongate, oblong ; lateral and posterior margins concave. Two small 
pre-occipitals not forming a suture together, but separated by the 
point of the anterior extremity of an azygos, arrow-head-shaped 
occipital, with a moderately sized exoccipital shield, on either side 
