208 



Brava, East Africa. 



GG. Mabuia acutilabris *. 



Euprepes acutilabris, l'ete?-s, Mon. Bed. Ac. 18G2, p. 19. 



daiuaraims (iion Peters), Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixii. i. 



1870, p. 338, pi. iii. figs. 1-3. 



Snout short, obtuse, much depressed, with deeply concave loreal 

 region, sharp canthus rostralis, and angularly projecting upper 

 labials. Lower eyelid with a very large transparent disk. Nostril 

 on the upper surface of the snout, just above or in front of the 

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

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

 first labial ; supranasals forming a suture behind the rostral ; 

 frontonasal broader than long, usually in contact with the frontal ; 

 latter longer than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in con - 

 tact with the first, second, and third supraoculars; four supraoculars, 

 second and third subcqual; five siipraciliaries, second longest; fronto- 

 parietals distinct, as large as or a little larger than the interparietal ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of 

 nuchals ; subocular not reaching the lip, in contact with the fifth 

 and sixth upper labials. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the trans- 

 parent palpebral disk, with three or four long lanceolate lobules 

 anteriorly. Dorsal and nuchal scales strongly tricarinate, laterals 

 sometimes bicarinate ; 28 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, 

 subequal. The hind limb reaches the shoulder or the ear. Toes 

 very long ; scales on the soles sharply keeled ; subdigital lamellae 

 sharply unicarinate. Tail not quite twice as long as head and body. 

 Brownish or fulvous above, with transverse darker bars with light 

 dots on the back, interrupted by a yellowish vertebral band ; two 

 light lateral bands, the lower commencing below the eye, passing 

 through the ear, and extending to the groin ; lower surfaces white. 



miilim. miilim. 



Total length 174 Eore limb 20 



Head 14 Hind limb 35 



Width of head .... 10 Tail 115 



Body 45 



South-west Africa. 



a. Ad. Angola. J. J. Mouteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



h-c. Ad. Carangigo. Dr. Welwitsch [P.]. 



d. Ad. Benguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



e-f. Ad. & hgr. Hererolaud. Berlin Museum [P/]. 



y-h. Ad. Damaraland. 



i. Yg. -—?^ 



* Types examined. 



