1 94 SCTNCIDiE. 



e. 



a-b, c-d. Ad. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.l. 



e. Ad. Jamaica. R. Reward, Esq. [P.J. 



/. Ad. Jamaica. Sir W. Hooker [P.]. 



(/. Ad. Jamaica. 



h-i. Ad. Bluefields, Jamaica. Mr. Eraser [C.]. 



k-o. Ad. Sta. Cruz, W. Lidies. A. Newton, Esq. [P.]. 



47. Mabuia frenata. 



Maboiiya cepedii (/ion Coct.), Gray, Cat. p. 95. 

 ? Scincus sloauii, Wied, JBeitr. Nat. Bras. i. p. 19o, and Ahhild. 

 Emcea frenata, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 187. 

 Eumeces (JMaboiiya) uattereri, Steindachn. Sitzh. Ak. Wien, Ixii. i. 



1870, p. 339, pL iii. fig. 4. 

 Mabuva frenata, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 404. pi. xxii. c. 



fig. "6. 

 Mabuia senea, part., G'Shaughn. Proc. Zool, See. 1881, p. 236. 

 (Emcea) frenata, Boettf/. Zeitschr.f. Naturw. Iviii. 1885, p. 228. 



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

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

 contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind the 

 rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, in contact with the truncate 

 anterior angle of the frontal ; latter shield as large as or a little larger 

 than the interparietal, in contact with the second suj^raocular only ; 

 four supraoculars, second very large ; five or six supraciliaries ; 

 frontoparietals united into a single shield ; parietals in contact behind 

 the interparietal ; one (or two) pair of nuchals ; five (or six) labials 

 anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening triangular, about as large 

 as a lateral scale, without projecting lobules. Scales smooth, 30 or 

 32 round the middle of the body, laterals a little smaller. Limbs 

 meeting or overlapping when pressed against the body. Subdigital 

 lamellae smooth. Tail slightly longer than head and body. Erowu 

 above, with small irregular darker and lighter spots, or with a 

 double series of blackish spots forming a pair of vertebral bands ; 

 a broad blackish-brown lateral band, bordered inferiorly by a more 

 or less distinct light band, commencing from the nostril and passing 

 through the eye ; lower surfaces dirty white, with more or less dis- 

 tinct greyish longitudinal lines corresponding with the lateral edge 

 of the scales. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 183 Pore limb 22 



Head 17 Hind limb 28 



Width of head .... 12 Tail 98 



Eody 68 



Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentine Eepublic. 



a 



Hgr. Brazil. 



b-c. Ad. Paraguay. 



d. Hgr. Candelaria, Prov. Missioue:-, Marquis G. Doria [E.]. 



Aigeutiue liep. 



