7. MABUIA. 189 



Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little larger than a lateral scale, 

 "vvitliout projecting lobules. 28 (or 20) scales round tbc middle of 

 the body ; dorsals slightly larger than the others, smooth or foebly 

 bicarinate. The hind limb reaches the elbow of the adpresscd fore 

 limb. Subdigital lamellio smooth. Tail more than twice as long 

 as head and body. Olive-brown above ; a broad dark browu band 

 on each side ; lower surfaces whitish. 



41. Mahuia longicaudata. 



Euprepis longicaudata, Hallow. Trans. Ame7: Philos. Soc. (2) xi. 

 1856, p. 77, pi. iv. fig. 1. 



In habit similar to M. carinata. Lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk. A postnasal. Head-shields as in 31. carinata. 30 scales 

 round the body, dorsals distinctly bicarinate ; laterals indistinctly 

 bicarinate. Olive-green above, white with a tinge of green below ; 

 a broad black lateral band extending from behind the eye to the base 

 of the tail. 



Siam. 



42. Mabuia aurata. 



Mabouya senea, Grai/, Cat. p. 94. 

 Scincus auratus, part., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 176. 

 bistriatus, Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras. p. 23, pi. xxvi. 



fig- 1- . . 

 Tiliqua bistriatus, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 69. 



senea, Gray, I. c. p. 70. 



? Tiliqua albolabris, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 292. 



Eumeces spixii, part., Dum. Sf Bibr. v. p. 642. 



Euprepes auratus, Gravenh. N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. 



p. 321, pi. xxxii. ; Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 51 ; Bocowt, 



Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 412, pi. xxii. c. fig. 7. 

 Euprepis surinamensis, Halloiv. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, (2) xi. 1856, 



p. 80, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 Mabuia surinamensis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 186. 



unimarginata, Cope, I. c. p. 187. 



Euprepes (Mabuia) auratus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1877, p. 412. 

 Mabuya agihs, part., Bocourt, Z. c. p. 395, pi. xxii. a. fig. 2. 



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

 parent disk. A postnasal ; anterior loreal usually not touching the 

 first labial ; supranaals in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal 



