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14. Mabuia sechellensis, D. & B. 
Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800 f.; Cascade, 1000 f.; Chateau Margaux, up to 1400 f. 
Praslin: Silhouette. 
Amirantes : St. Joseph, D’Arros. 
The scales round the middle of the body number 34 to 40; the frontonasal is 
constantly in contact with the rostral. 
This species was known only from the Seychelles. 
15. Mabuia wrightii, Blgr. 
N. Cousin. 
38 to 42 scales round the middle of the body; frontonasal sometimes forming a 
narrow suture with the rostral, this suture, if present, narrower than that between the 
frontonasal and the frontal. ) 
This fine Lizard, originally described from the Seychelles, without further particulars, 
is easily distinguished from J. sechellensis by the much larger size (130 millim. from 
snout to vent), the shorter and blunter snout, and the greater width of the frontal in 
its posterior part; also by the absence of any trace of a light streak from the upper lip 
to the groin. The examination of the large series of specimens placed in my hands by 
Mr. Stanley Gardiner does not confirm Mr. Stejneger’s opinion * that I. wrightti is a 
synonym of J. sechellensis. 
16. Ablepharus boutonii, Desjard. 
Aldabra (coll. Thomasset). 
The specimens belong to the var. peronti, Coct., which is known from East Africa, 
Papua, and Australia. Specimens from Aldabra were referred by Stejneger to the 
var. pecilopleurus, Wiegm., which differs in the higher number of seales round the body. 
But the varieties of this widely and irregularly distributed species are so ill-defined, that 
not much importance can be attached to the naming of them. 
17. Scelotes braueri, Bttgr. 
Mahé: Cascade Estate, 2000 f.; in forest under dead leaves. 
Only known from Mahé, where it was discovered a few years ago by Dr. Brauer. 
18. Scelotes gardineri, sp. n. (Plate 40. fig. 5.) 
Snout short, obtuse, not projecting beyond the mouth; eye moderate; lower eyelid 
scaly; ear-opening rather large, vertically oval. Supranasals forming a median suture ; 
a postnasal between the supranasal and the first labial; frontal about twice as long as 
the frontonasal, bell-shaped, narrowed in front and with a notch on each side for the 
posterior-inner angle of the first supraocular ; no preefrontals ; five supraoculars, second 
largest, fifth small; no frontoparietals ; interparietal a nearly equilateral triangle, as 
long as ora little longer than the frontonasal, embraced by the frontal and the parietals ; 
* Proc, U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 720. 
