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Tho hind limb reaches the wrist or the elbow of the adpresscd foro 

 limb. Scales on the soles sharply keeled, spinose ; subdigital 

 lamella! sharply tricarinate, spinose. Tail once and a half to once 

 and two thirds the length of head and body. Olive or brownish 

 above, with small dark brown spots and light dots, with or Avithout 

 two or three paler dorsal bands ; a whitish, dark-edged lateral band, 

 beginning on tho upper lip and passing through the ear; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 105 Fore limb 1!) 



Head 14 Hind limb 27 



Width of head 10 Tail 100 



Body 51 



Africa south of the equator, 



a, h, c. Ad. & hgr. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



d. Several spec. : ad. Cape Colony. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 

 &hgr. 



e. Ad. Pt. Natal. Mr. T. Avres [P.]. 



f. Yg. Pt. Elizabeth. A. E. Craven, Esq. [P.]. 

 \l-k. Ad. & hgr. Angola. Mr. Rich [C.]. 



59. Mabuia bocagii. 



Euprepes rpiinqueteeniatus (iion Licht.), Bocaye, Jam. Sc. Lish. i. 



1867, p. 44. 

 petersi (non Sfeind.), Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1872, p. 74. 



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

 parent disk. Nostril anterior to the vertical of the suture between 

 the rostral and the first labial ; a postnasal ; anterior loreal not in 

 contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind tho 

 rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with the 

 frontal ; latter as long as or a little shorter than the frontoparietal 

 and interparietal together, in contact with the second and third 

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

 five supraciliaries, second largest ; frontoparietal distinct, a little 

 smaller than the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals ; five labials anterior to the 

 subocular, which is much narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening oval, 

 as large as the transparent palpebral disk, with four or five long 

 pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal and nuchal scales strongly quin- 

 quecarinate, laterals tricarinate ; 3G to 38 scales round the middle 

 of the body, dorsals largest. The hind limb reaches the wrist or 

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

 keeled, spinose ; subdigital lamellae sharply tricarinate, spinose. 

 Tail about once and a half the length of head and body, Olive- 

 brown above, black-dotted, with five yellowish, black-edged bands, 

 the lower (lateral) beginning below the eye and passing through 

 the ear ; lower surfaces whitish. 



