160 SCDfCID^. 



(or three) supraoculars, the first very small and sometimes absent ; 

 six or seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals coalesced to a single 

 shield ; parietals and interparietal coalesced to a single subcresccntic 

 shield, followed by a pair of nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper labials 

 below the eye, the former not much larger than the latter. Ear- 

 opening oval, considerably larger than the eye-opening, with a few 

 minute projecting lobules or granules anteriorly. 2suchal and 

 dorsal scales strongly tricarinate ; 54 scales round the middle of the 

 body, subcqual. The limbs overlap when adpressed. Subdigital 

 lamellae smooth. Tail a little longer than head and body. Olive- 

 brown above, with small darker and lighter spots, and three lighter 

 longitudinal dorsal bands, the vertebral of which is a little narrower 

 than the others and does not extend beyond the base of the tail ; a 

 small blackish spot in the axilla. Lower surfaces greenish grev, 

 with more or less distinct darker variegations ; chin, and sometimes 

 a median ventral zone, yellowish. 



St. Jago, Cape Yerde Islands. 

 a-e. Ad. St. Jago. Rev. R. T. Lowe [P.]. 



Xamed in honour of Professor L. Yaillant. 



5. Mabuia punctata. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 



Euprepis maculatus, Gra]/, Cat. p. 111. 



punctatus, G)-ay, I. c. 



Tiliqua punctata, Grai/, Ami. 3". II. ii. 1838, p. 289. 



maculata, Gray, I. c. 



Euprepes maculatus. A. Diun. Cat. Mefh. Rept. p. 159; Bocoui-t, 



Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 410, pi. xxii. c. fig. 3. 

 Mabouva punctatissima, O' Shaughn. Ann. 4". Mag. X. H. (4) siii. 

 1874, p. 300. 



Snout elongate, obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk. A postnasal : anterior loreal not, or but slightly, in 

 contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind the 

 rostral ; frontonasal broader than long ; praefrontals forming a short 

 median suture, or narrowly separated ; frontal about as long as the 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, usually in contact with 

 the first, second, and third supraoculars : four supraoculars, second 

 largest ; five supraciliaries ; frontoparietals two, about as large as 

 the interparietal ; parietals in contact behind the interparietal ; one 

 pair of nuchals ; four or five labials anterior to the subocular, 

 which is large and not narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening nearly as 

 large as the eye-opening, vertically oval, with a series of minute 

 projecting lobules or granules on its front border. Dorsal scales 

 more or less distinctly tri- or quinquecarinate ; 34 to 38 scales 



