202 scTNCin^. 



■vfith two or three small projecting: lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, 

 nuchal, and lateral scales strongly tricariuate : 30 scales round the 

 middle of the body, subcqual. The hind limb reaches the wrist or 

 the elbow of the adpressed fore limb. Scales on the soles sharply 

 keeled, spinose ; subdigital lamellas sharply tricarinate, spinose. 

 Tail once and one third to once and t-\AO thirds the length of head 

 and body. Olive above, with small black spots and light dots or 

 shafts ; two light streaks on each side, the lower, beginning on the 

 upper lip and passing through the eye, edged inferiorly with a 

 blackish streak ; lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 146 Fore limb 19 



Head 14 Hind limb 25 



Width of head .... 9 Tail 85 



Body 47 



Abyssinia. 



a. Ad. Keren, Bogos. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. (One of 



the types.) 

 h-d. Ad. X- ligr. Lake Ashanghi. W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. 



58. Mabuia varia. 



Euprepes olivieri («o« D. i^' JB.), Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. pi. xxxi. 



figs. 3-5 ; Petei-s, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18-54, p. 618. 

 (Euprepis) vaiius, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 20 *, and 



Reise n. Moasamb. iii. p. 68. 



olivieri, var. albopunctatus, Socage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 1867, 



p. 223. 



(Mabiiya) k-evigatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 434*. 



damaramis, Peters, CEfvers. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1869, p. 657 *. 



angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1872, p. 78. 



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

 parent disk. Nostril usually just above or behind the vertical of 

 the suture between the rostral and the first labial : a postnasal ; 

 anterior loreal usx;ally in contact with the first labial : supranasals 

 in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, usually 

 in contact with the frontal ; latter a little shorter than the fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the second and 

 third supraoculars : four supraoculars, first small, second very large ; 

 five supraciliaries, second as large as the three others together ; 

 frontoparietals distinct, as^ large as or smaller than the interparietal ; 

 parietals usually meeting beiiind the interparietal : a pair of nuchals ; 

 four or five labials anterior to the subocular, which is feebly but 

 distinctly narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening oval, oblique, smaller 

 than the transparent palpebral disk, with three to five short pointed 

 lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales strongly tri- 

 carinate ; 30 to 34 scales round the middle of the body, subcqual. 



Types examined. 



