178 SCINCID^. 



the back, to the vav.ftllowsii with regular black cross bars on the bodj-. 

 All specimens agree in the following points : — Two bands, lighter 

 than the ground-colour, which is brownish or greyish, extend along 

 each side, the upper from the supraciliary border, the lower from 

 below the eye ; the interspace between these bands dark brown 

 with small whitish spots, or irregularly spotted with darker brown ; 

 a narrow vertebral zone constantly remains unspotted ; lower 

 surfaces uniform whitish. In the Arabian specimen and in one of 

 the Persian, the four blackish longitudinal bands are distinct on the 

 nape. In the specimens from Asia Minor (yar. fcUowsii) longitu- 

 dinal dark bands are absent, and the interspace between the three 

 unspotted dorsal streaks is occupied by more or less regular dark 



brown cross bands. 



millim. milliin. 



Total length 218 Fore limb 25 



Head../; 17 Hind limb 35 



Width of head .... 13 Tail 130 



Body 71 



Abyssinia, Arabia, Syria, Asia Minor, Persia, Sind. 



a. Ad. Muscat, Arabia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



b-d. Ad. Teheran. Marquis G. Doria [P.J. 



e. Hgr. Between Isfahan and W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Teheran. 



/-7;2. Ad., hgr., &yg. Xanthus. Sir C. Fellows [P.]. 



(Types of Ettpi-epis fellotvsii.) 



Tt-p. Ad. Xanthus. Haslar Collection. 



q. Ad. Smyrna. R. MacAndrew, Esq. [P.]. 



28. Mabuia innotata. 



Euprepes innotatus, Blanford, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 

 p. 354, pi. xvi. tig. 9. 



Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 

 disk. Nostril pierced behind the vertical of the suture between the 

 rostral and the first labial ; no postnasal ; anterior loreal in contact 

 with the first labial ; frontonasal broader than long, in contact with 

 the rostral and (not constantly) with the frontal ; latter a little 

 shorter than the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in con- 

 tact with the second supraocular only ; four supraoculars, second 

 very large ; six supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, slightly 

 shorter than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals ; 

 a pair of uuchals ; four labials anterior to the subocular, which is at 

 least twice as long as the neighbouring labials, and not narrowed 

 inferiorly. Ear-opening triangular, a little larger than a lateral 

 scale, with three or four short lobules anteriorly. Nuchal and 

 lateral scales mostly feebly tricarinate ; dorsals quinquecarinate ; 

 34 (or 32) scales round the middle of the body. The hind limb 

 reaches the wrist of the adpressed fore limb. Subdigital lamellae 

 smooth. Tail about once and three fourths the length of head 



