412 SCITTCID^. 



5. Scelotes igneocaudatus. 



GoDgylus igneocaudatus, Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zuol. xix. 1867, 

 p. 234. 



Snout subcuneiform, projecting beyond the labial margin ; eye 

 moderate, lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk ; ear- 

 opening suboval, horizontal ; suprauasals forming a median suture ; 

 a postnasal between the supranasal and the first labial ; frontal 

 twice as long as the frontonasal, much longer than broad ; no prse- 

 frontals ; four supraoculars, second largest ; seven supraciliaries ; no 

 frontoparietals ; interparietal longer than broad, shorter and nar- 

 rower than the frontal, narrower than the parietals, its anterior 

 border obtusely angular, fitting in an emargination of the posterior 

 border of the frontal ; fourth upper labial entering the orbit. 24 

 scales round the middle of the body. Limbs peutadactyle, weak, 

 widely separated when adpressed ; the fore limb, stretched forwards, 

 does not quite reach the ear ; digits slender. Tail longer than head 

 and body. Uniform golden yellow above, tail reddish ; a broad 

 black, white-edged band on each side, beginning from the nostril 

 and passing through the eye ; a second, narrower black streak from 

 the commissure of the jaws to the groin, passing just below the 

 ear, and a third, narrower still, from axilla to groin ; lower surfaces 

 uniform whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail in- Body 43 



jured) 83 Fore limb 6 



Head 8 Hind limb 13 



Width of head 4-5 



Madagascar. 



a. Ad. Tullear. M. Grandidier [P.]. (One of 



the types.) 



6. Scelotes capensis. (Plate XXIV. fig. 1.) 



Gongylus capensis, Smith, 111. S. Afr., Rept., App. p. 10. 

 Seps capensis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 241. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin ; eye 

 moderate ; lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk ; ear- 

 opening minute, circular; supranasals forming a median suture; 

 a postnasal between the supranasal and the first labial ; frontal 

 about twice as long as the frontonasal ; no proefrontals ; four supra- 

 oculars, second and third largest ; no frontoparietals ; interparietal 

 broader than long, broader than the frontal, much broader than the 

 parietals : fourth upper labial entering the orbit. 22 scales round 

 the middle of the body. Limbs very short, peutadactyle, the fore 

 limb half as long as its distance from the end of the snout. Tail 



