420 SCINCID-S. 



5. Sepsina johannae. (Plate XXVI. fig. 2.) 

 Gongylus joliiuiu.X', Gihdh. Arm. i^- Mog. N. H. (5) vi. 1880, p. 236. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond tbe labial margin ; eye 

 moderate ; lower eyelid scaly ; car-opening very small, roundish ; 

 frontal about twice as long as the frontonasal, longer than broad, 

 angularly emarginate on each side by the first supraocular, and 

 posteriorly by the interparietal ; five supraoculars ; seven supra- 

 ciliaries ; interparietal longer than broad, nearly half as long as the 

 frontal ; fourth upper labial entering the orbit. 30 to 32 scales 

 round the middle of the body, equal. Limbs very short, penta- 

 dactyle ; the fore limb, stretched forwards, reaches the ear ; its 

 length a little less than that of the head. Tail once and a half the 

 length of head and body. Brown above, mottled with darker, 

 whitish interiorly. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 178 Pore limb 9 



Head 11 Hind limb 14 



\Yidth of head 7 Tail 105 



Body 62 



A larger specimen, with reproduced tail, measures 115 millim. 

 from snout to vent. 

 Comoro Islands. 



n. Hgr. Comoro Islands. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. I ,m ,. 



b-c. Ad. Johanna. C. E. Bewsher, Esq. [C.]. ( ^^T^^^-) 



6. Sepsina tetradactyla. 



Sepsina (E,binoscincus> tetradactyla, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1874, 

 p. 374. 



Snout much depressed, subeuneiform ; lower eyelid scaly ; ear- 

 opening very small ; frontal longer than broad, emarginate 

 posteriorly ; four supraoculars ; four supraciliaries ; fourth upper 

 labial entering the orbit. 22 scales round the body. Limbs very 

 short, tetradactyle ; fore limb hardly half as long as the head, two 

 thirds the length of the hind limb. Dark brown above, with 

 black lines following the longitudinal series of scales ; dirty white 

 inferiorly, with blue network on the tail. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail re- From snout to vent. 82 



produced) 120 Fore limb 5 



Head 11 Hind limb 8 



Zanzibar coast. 



