18. ecELOTEs. 415 



email; lower eyelid scaly ; ear-openinj^ hidden ; supranasals forming 

 a median suture ; a postnasal between tlio supranasal and the first 

 labial ; frontal twice as long as the frontonasal, much longer than 

 broad ; four supraoculars, second largest, three in contact with the 

 frontal ; six supraciliaries ; no frontoparietals ; interparietal broader 

 than long, broader but shorter than tlie frontal, its anterior border 

 concave ; pariotals narrow, band-like ; fourtli up[)er labial below 

 the eye. 20 scales round the middle of the body. Fore limbs 

 absent ; a minute bud-like rudiment of the hind limb. Tail shorter 

 than the body. Palo brown above and on the sides, each scale with 

 a dark brown dot ; belly brownish white, immaculate ; lower sur- 

 face of tail brown-spotted. 



From snout to vent 98 millim., tail 70. 



Natal. 



a. Ad. Port Natal. Rev. H. Calloway [P.]. 



11. Scelotes inornatus. (Plate XXIV. fig. 4.) 



liithophihis inornatus, Smith, III. S. Afr., .Rept., App. p. 12. 

 Herpetosaura inornata, part., G'dnth. Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 



1873, p. 147. 

 inornata, var. mossambica, Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 81. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin ; oyo 

 small ; lower eyelid scaly ; ear-opening hidden or hardly distin- 

 guishable ; supranasals forming a median suture and in contact 

 with the first labial ; frontal not twice as long as the frontonasal, 

 longer than broad ; four supraoculars, three anterior subequal and 

 in contact with the frontal ; six supraciliaries ; no frontoparietals ; 

 interparietal as long as and broader than the frontal, its anterior 

 border concave or angidarly emarginate ; parietals narrow, band- 

 like ; fourth upper labial below the eye. 20 (or 18) scales round 

 the middle of the body. Limbs absent. Tail slightly longer than 

 the body. Pale brown, each scale with a dark brown dot, which is 

 very small on the back, larger on the belly, largest on the sides. 



From snout to vent 70 millim., tail 75. 



South Africa. 



a. 



Ad. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type.) 



b. Ad. Port Natal. Mr. T. Ayres [C. 



12. Scelotes arenicola. 



Herpetosaura arenicola, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 619, and 

 Iteise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 79, pi. xi. fig. 4, and pi. xiii. a. fig. 4. 



End of snout projecting ; rostral very large ; eye small ; lower 

 eyelid scaly ; ear hidden ; supranasals usually forming a median 

 suture, sometimes separated, in contact with the first labial ; frontal 

 little longer than the frontonasal, nearly as broad as long; no prae- 

 frontals ; three supraoculars, first much the largest, two in contact 



