7. MABCIA. 201 



the middle of the body, suhoqiial. The hind limb reaches the elbow 

 of the adpressed fore limb, or nearly so far. Subdigital laraelloD 

 smooth or tubercular. Tail once and a half to once and three fourths 

 the length of head and body. Olive-brown above, sides blackish; 

 back with small black and light spots or ocelli ; two or three light 

 streaks on each side; lower surfaces whitish. 



niillim. millim. 



Total length 18:3 Fore limb 22 



Head 1 .5 Hind limb 33 



AVidth of head 11 Tail 113 



Body 55 



Madagascar. 



a. Ad. Madagascar. Dr. J. E. Gray [P-T- 



b-c. Ad. it hgr. Madagascar. J. Caldwell, Esq. [r.]. 



d. Ad. Madagascar. 



e-f. Ad. & hgr. Antananarivo. Rev. J. Wills [C.]. 



ff-l. Ad. & yg. Near Tamatave. Rev. W. D. Cowan [C.]. 



7)1. Ad. ? Zoological Society. 



56. Mabuia bayonii, 



Euprepes gravenhorstii (non D. <§• B.), Socage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 186G, 



P-21- 

 bayonii, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lish. iv. 1872, p. 75. 



The only differences I can find for separating this Mahida from 

 the preceding are the larger size of the ear-lobules, which cover a 

 considerable part of the ear-opening, and the shorter limbs, which 

 scarcely overlap. 



Angola and Mossamedes. 



a. Ad. Duque de Bragance, Angola. Prof. B. du Bocage [P.]. 



57. Mabuia isselii. 



Euprepes (Euprepis) isselii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 567. 

 Euprepis quinquetseniatus, part., Blanford, Zool. Abyss, p. 456. 



\ Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a large undivided trans- 

 parent disk. ]S ostril behind the vertical of the suture between the 

 rostral and the first lal)ial ; a postnasal ; anterior lorcal not or but 

 slightly in contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact 

 behind the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, sometimes in 

 contact with the frontal ; latter shorter than the frontoparietal and 

 interparietal together, in contact with the second and third supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; five supraciliaries, second 

 longest ; frontoparietals fused to a single shield, which is as long as 

 or longer than the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal : a pair of nuchals ; four (or five) labials anterior 

 to the subocular, which is feebly but distinctly narrowed inferiorly. 

 Ear-opening suboval, smaller than the transparent palpebral disk, 



