308 SCINCID^. 



fourth toe. Tail thick, shorter than head and body. Brown or 

 rufous above, uniform, or each scale with a blackish dot or longitu- 

 dinal streak, or with scattered pale round spots ; sides usually 

 darker, with whitish brown-edged ocelli ; lower surfaces yellowish 

 white, uniform or brown- dotted. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 156 Fore limb 14 



Head 17 Hind limb 22 



Width of head 13 Tail (reproduced) . . 48 



Body 91 



Tropical and South Africa. 



a. Hgr. Natal. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type.) 



6. Ad. Mozambique. Prof Peters [P.]. (As typical of 



Eumeces afer.) 



c. Ad. Zambezi Exped. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. (Type of 



Mochlus punctatus.) 



d. Ad., dry. Zangomero in Khutu, Capt. Speke [P.]. 



E. Africa. 



e. Hgr. Lake Nyassa. J. B. Thelwall, Esq. [C.]. 

 /. Hgr. Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk [C.J. 



q. Hgr. Coast of Zanzibar. 



'h-i. Ad. E. Africa. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



k. Ad. Lado, Soudan. Emin Bey [C.]. 



/. Hgr. Bsnguela. Prof. B. du Bocage [P.]. 



m. Hgr. W. Africa. Mr. Eraser [C.]. 



110. Lygosoma bowringii. (Plate XXIII. fig. 3.) 



Eumeces bowriugii, Gunth. Hej^t. Brit. Ind. p. 91. 



Euprepes (Riopa) pimctatostriatus, Peters, 3Iu)i. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 31. 



Body elongate, limbs rather short ; the distance between the end 

 of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half in the 

 distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid scaly. Suprauasals present, in contact behind the rostral * ; 

 frontonasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture with 

 the frontal ; praefrontals small ; frontal as long as frontoparietals 

 and interparietal together, in contact with the first and second 

 supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven supraciliaries, first and last 

 largest ; frontoparietals distinct ; interparietal distinct, smaller than 

 frontoparietals ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; 

 a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fifth 

 upper labial largest and bordering the orbit. Ear-opening small, 

 round. 28 scales round the middle of the body, subequal ; dorsals 

 indistinctly tricarinate. Marginal prasanals a little enlarged. The 

 adpressed limbs fail to meet ; the hind Kmb equals about three 

 fifths the distance between axilla and groin. Digits moderate, 

 compressed ; fourth toe a little longer than third ; subdigital 



* The type of E. punctatostriatus differs only in having the extremity of the 

 rostral in contact with the frontonasal. 



