IGG SCINCID^. 



Subdigital lamell.T smooth. Tail about twice as long as hoad and 

 body. Olive-brown above, nsually with a more or less distinct 

 broad dark brown lateral band, beginning from the snout and 

 passing tliroiigh the eye, bordered inferiorly by a whitish streak ; 

 these bands raay be quite indistinct : back uniform, or with small 

 irregular dark spots, or "with longitudinal dark brown streaks ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



12. Mahuia affinis. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Tiliqua nifescens, part., Gray, Cat. p. 109. 

 Tiliqua afhuis, Gray, Ann. N. II. ii..l8;i8, p. 289. 



Yery near M. raddonii, from which it differs in the rather more 

 elongate head, longer limbs, and the presence of five supraciliaries 

 instead of six or seven. The hind limb reaches halfway between 

 the elbow and the axilla. 28 scales round the body. 



The unique specimen, which measures GO millim from snout to 

 vent, is in bad state ; it is discoloured and has lost the tail. 



a. Ad. ? (Type.) 



13. Mabiiia depressa*. 



Euprepes depressus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. G18, and Iteise n. 

 Mossamb. iii. p. 71, pi. x. fig. 4. 



Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. 

 Kostril just above the suture between the rostral and the first 

 labial ; a postnasal ; anterior loreal slightly in contact with the first 

 labial ; frontonasal broader than long, touching the rostral : prte- 

 frontals formirg a median suture ; frontal as long as the fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the second and 

 third supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest and touching 

 tlie pra;frontal ; live supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, as 



* Types examined. 



