198 sciNcrDiE. 



52. Maljiiia quinquetseniata. 



Euprepis quiuquetajuiatiis, Gray, Cat. p. 112. 

 ScincLis quinquetaeniatus, Licht. Verz. Dutibl. Mus. Berl. p. 103. 

 Mabuya quinquetoDniata, Fitzing. N. Classif. liept. p. .52. 

 Scincus savignyi, Audouin, Descr. Eyypte, Sept., Suppl. p. 177, pi. ii. 



figs. 3, 4. 

 Tiliqua quinquestriata, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 18.38, p. 290. 

 Euprepes savignyi, Dum. i^- Bibr. v. p. (577 ; Gravenh. N. Acta Ac, 



Leap.- Carol, xxiii. 1851, i. p. 329, pi. xxxiii. ; Peters, Mon. Berl. 



Ac. 1854, p. 618. 

 — — margaritifer, Peters, I. c. * , and Peise n. Mossamh. iii. p. 64, 



pi. X. fig. 1 ; Bocaye, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1872, p. 80. 

 Euprepis gularis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 61. 



kirkii, G?-ay, I. c. p. 62, pi. ix. fig. 1. 



Euprepes binotatus, Socage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 1807, p. 230, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



Snout rather elongate, obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid with 

 an undivided transparent disk. Nostril just above or behind the 

 vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial ; a 

 postnasal ; anterior loreal usually not or but slightly in contact with 

 the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind the rostral ; fronto- 

 nasal broader than long, usuaDy separated from the frontal by the 

 prsefrontals ; frontal as long as or a little shorter than the fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the second and 

 third, or first, second, and third, supraoculars; five or six supra- 

 ciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, as large as or smaller than the 

 interparietal ; parietals usually meeting behind the interparietal ; a 

 pair of nuchals ; four, sometimes five, labials anterior to the sub- 

 ocular, which is not or but slightly narrowed infcriorly. Ear- 

 opening oval, with three to five short obtusely-pointed lobules 

 anteriorly. Dorsal and lateral scales more or less strongly tricari- 

 nate, anterior nuchals mostly quinquecarinate ; 36 to 44 scales 

 round the middle of the body, dorsals largest. The hind limb 

 reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore limb or the axillar pit. 

 Subdigital lamellae sometimes smooth, usually more or less strongly 

 unicarinate. Tail once and a half to once and three fourths the 

 length of head and body. Young blackish brown above, with five 

 yellowish-white longitudinal bands, the upper of the laterals com- 

 mencing from the eye, the lower from the upper lip; tail blue; 

 lower surfaces greyish blue. The adults vary extremely : upper 

 parts brown or olive, with or without the light bands so conspicuous 

 in the young ; a blackish, often white-dotted band, or some large 

 black spots on the temple and the side of the neck ; lower surfaces 

 whitish, throat often dotted or marbled with dark brown. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 240 Fore limb 31 



Head 20 Hind limb 42 



Width of head 15 Tail 154 



Body 66 



Types examined, 



