7. MABTTTA. 17 



niillim. millim. 



Total length 180 ' Foro limb 18 



Head 15 Hind limb 29 



Width of head .... 11 Tail 105 



Body GO 



North Africa, Syria. 



a-g. Ad. & hgr. Cabes, Tunis. ]\[. F. Lataste [CI. 

 A. Ad. Between Khan TubbTusef and Dr. Audi;rson [P.]. 



Ain Mellalia, Egypt. 



t. Ad. Between Kefr Hawar and Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



Artuz, N.E. slope of Mt. 



Hermon. 



h. Ad. Mt. Ueruiou. Canon Tristram [C 



l-n. Ad. Galilee. Canon Tristram [(J 



o. Ad. Jerusalem. Canon Tristram ! C 



"p. Ad. Merom. Canon Tristram [ C, 



q. Ad. Beersheba. Canon Tristram jC ^ 



r. Ad. Palestine. Canon Tristram [0.° 



27. Mabuia septemtseniata. 



Euprepis fellowsii, Gray^ Cat. p. 113. 



septemtseniatus, Gray, I. c. 



Euprepis septemteeniatus, Hcuss, Mus. Senckenb. i. p. 47, pi. iii. 

 tig. 1 ; Duiti. 8) Bihr. v. p. 680 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 388 

 Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 352. 

 aiiinis, De Filippi, Viag. in Persia, p. 354. 



Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid -with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Xostril entirely or greater part behind the vertical of the 

 suture between the rostral and the first labial ; normally no post- 

 nasal : anterior loreal in contact with the tirst labial ; supranasals 

 in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, in con- 

 tact with the truncate anterior angle of the frontal; latter shield as 

 long as, or a little longer than, the frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the second, or first and second, or second 

 and third supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest and but 

 rarely touching the prsefrontal ; five (rarely four or six) supraciliaries ; 

 frontoparietals two, smaller than the interparietal, which entirely 

 separates the parietals ; one (or two) pair of nuchals ; four labials 

 anterior to the subocular ; latter not narrowed inferiorly, about 

 twice as large as the neighbouring labials. Ear-opening oval-sub- 

 trianguiar, about as large as a lateral scale, with two or three minute 

 projecting lobules anteriorly. Dorsal scales more or less distinctly 

 tricarinate, sometimes almost smooth ; the scales on the neck and 

 flanks smooth or very feebly keeled ; 34 to 38 scales round the 

 middle of the body ; dorsals a little larger than laterals and ventrals. 

 The adpressed limbs overlap. Subdigital lamellse smooth or obtusely 

 unicarinate. Tail about once and a half as long as head and body. 

 The coloration varies extremely, with complete gradation between the 

 typical form from Abyssinia, with four longitudinal black bands along 



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