206 SCINCID^. 



littlo broader than long, iu contact with the anterior angle of the 

 frontal ; latter shield as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together, in contact with the second and third supraoculars ; four 

 supraoculars, first small, second lai'gest ; five supraciliaries, second 

 largest ; frontoparietals distinct, smaller than the interparietal ; 

 parietals entirely separated by the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals ; 

 subocular much narrowed inferiorly, bordering the lip between the 

 fifth and sixth upper labials. Ear-opening oval, oblique, not quite 

 so large as the transparent palpebral disk, with two or three very 

 small triangular lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral 

 scales strongly trieai-inato ; 40 scales round the middle of the body, 

 subequal. The hind limb reaches the elbow. Scales on the soles 

 sharply keeled, spinose ; subdigital lamellae sharply unicarinate. 

 Tail nearly once and a half as long as head and body. Olive 

 above, with a rather indistinct broad light dorso-lateral band ; an 

 ill-defined dark brown band from the eye to the side of the body ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



Damaraland. 



Perhaps not specifically distinct from 21. striata. 



64. Mabuia sulcata*. 



Euprepes olivaceus (non Grm/), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 21. 

 sulcatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 20. 



Head and body very strongly depressed ; snout model ate, obtusely 

 acuminate ; loreal region concave. Lower eyelid with a largo 

 transparent disk. jS^ostril pierced behind the vertical of the suture 

 between the rostral and the first labial ; a postnasal ; anterior 

 loreal in contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind 

 the rostral ; frontonasal as long as broad, or a little broader than 

 long, in contact with or narrowly separated from the frontal ; latter 

 as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the second and third, or first, second, and third, supraoculars ; 

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

 frontoparietals distinct, smaller than the interparietal ; parietals in 

 contact behind the latter shield : a pair of nuchals ; subocular not 

 reaching the lip, resting on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, or fifth and 

 sixth, labials. Ear-opening oval, as large as the transparent palpe- 

 bral disk, with two or three very small lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, 

 nuchal, and lateral scales strongly quinquecarinate ; 34 to 38 scales 

 round the middle of the bod}', dorsals largest. The hind limb reaches 



* Types examined. 



