306 



SCTNCIDJS. 



with darker and scantily with lighter ; lower surfaces yellowish 



white. 



inillini. milliiii. 



Total length 77 Fore limb 12 



Head 11 Hind limb 18 



Body 39 



Brava, East Africa. 



107. Lygosoma modestum. (Plate XXIII. fig, 2.) 

 Sepacontias modestus, Giinth. Ann. 4" Mag. N. H, (5) vi. 1880, p. 235. 



Body much elongate, subcylindrical ; limbs weak ; the distance 

 between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained twice 

 and one third to twice and one half in the distance between axilla 

 and groin. Lower eyelid scaly. 8nout short, much depressed, 

 rounded : no canthus rostralis. Nasal large, forming a suture with 

 its fellow behind the rostral ; no supranasal, but a suture extends 

 from the nostril to the lorcal ; frontonasal much broader than long, 

 forming a broad suture with the frontal ; prasfrontals small, widely 

 separated ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and parietals together, 

 in contact with the first and second supraoculars : four supraoculars ; 

 six or seven supraeiliaries, first and last largest ; frontoparietals 

 and interparietal distinct, subequal, or interparietal smallest ; no 

 nuchals : fourth and fifth labials below the eye, fourth largest. 

 Ear-opening very small, oval, oblique. 20 scales round the middle 

 of the body, smooth, equal, Praeanals not enlarged. The fore 

 limb, when stretched forwards, hardly reaches the ear ; the length 

 of the hind limb is contained twice and two thirds to three times 

 in the distance between axilla and groin. Digits short, compressed ; 

 fourth toe considerably longer than third : subdigital lamellge feebly 

 unicarinate, 12 or 13 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, slightly longer 

 than head and body. Brown above ; lateral scales with a central 

 whitish spot or shaft ; lower surfaces yellowish white, tail brown- 

 dotted. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail in- Body 72 



jured) 115 Fore limb 11 



Head 13 Hind limb 17 



Width of head 9 



East Africa. 



a-c. Ad. & hgr. Mpwapwa, 200 miles in H. W. Bates, Esq. [C.]. 



interior of E. Africa. (Types.) 



108. Lygosoma gnineeiise. 



Euprepes (Tiliqua) guiueensis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879, p. 773, 

 pi. — . fig. 1. 



Body elongate, limbs moderate. Lower eyelid scaly. Supra- 



