76 NOTICE OF SOME NEW AND RARE SPECIES OF SCINCIDA. 
darker colour; sides of neck and under jaw, dark brown with white spots upon the latter, 
arranged upon the inferior parts of it in short rows, looking like Mosaic. Nine or ten 
transverse bands of dark brown upon the sides, extending from the back to the abdomen, 
with intermediate spaces of white; sides of tail, brown, spotted with white; under surface 
of body, tail and extremities, straw-coloured, with longitudinal, zigzag lines of a darker 
shade, along the external border of the scales; the longitudinal lines are broader, and of 
a dark brown colour, upon the chin and throat; transverse bands of brown upon the 
under part of the lower jaw or each side anteriorly. 
Dimensions. Length of head, fourteen lines; greatest breadth, nine lines; length of neck 
and body to vent, four inches; of tail four inches, eight lines. ‘Total length, nine inches, 
ten lines. 
Habitat. Liberia, West coast of Africa, one-specimen in Mus. Acad. Nat. Sciences, pre- 
sented by J. J. Haldeman, Esq. 
EUPREPIS BLANDIGII. NOB. 
Syn. Huprepis Blandigii, Hallowell, Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sciences, vol. ii. p. 58. 
Char. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. A broad, lateral black band, margined 
with two white vitte; ground colour above olive, with four narrow black lines along the 
back; under parts silvery white; twenty-nine rows of scales, tri-carinate upon back 
and sides; body slender. 
Description. The head is of moderate size, triangular, narrow, flattened above; the 
snout is somewhat prolonged and rounded in front; the plates upon the upper surface of 
the head, as well as those upon the sides, are perfectly smooth; the rostral plate is large, 
pentagonal, presenting an obtuse angle at its summit; the nasal plates are of moderate size, 
triangular, rounded posteriorly; the supero-nasals are narrow, oblong, in contact with 
each other; the inter-nasal plate is larger, presenting the form of a lozenge with its late- 
ral angles truncated, the posterior angle acute, the anterior obtuse; it is in contact in 
front with the two supero-nasal plates, its anterior angle not reaching quite so far as the 
rostral; the fronto-nasals are of moderate size, sub-pentagonal; their lateral and inferior 
margins are in contact with the superior margin of the two frenal plates; the freno-nasal 
is small, triangular; the first of the frenal plates is oblong, quadrilateral; the second, which 
is much the larger of the two, is pentagonal; the frontal plate is also pentagonal, much 
broader in front, rounded posteriorly; the fronto-parictal are oblong pentagonal; their an- 
terior margins, or those which embrace the posterior margins of the frontal, are the 
smallest; they are in contact, laterally, with the two supra-orbitar, and posteriorly with 
the parietal and inter-parietal plates; the parietals are large, pentagonal; the inter-parie- 
