956 MR. A. LOVERIDGB : NOTES ON 



SCINCID^. 



Mabuia comouensis Peters. 



Blgr. Oat. Liz. iii. 1887, p. 163. 



A «iugle male from Frere Town, Kenya Colony, 2. viii. 20. 

 "Whilst collecting butterflies under the mango-trees I heard a 

 rustle and rush among the dead leaves some ten feet from the trunk 

 of a mango. Running to the tree I was just in time to put my 

 hand on a handsomely-coloured skink as it ran up the trunk. 



It is with some misgivings I refer it to comorensis, as the head 

 seems broader and the scalation slightly difi'erent from examples 

 in the British Museum collection. 



Its total length was SI inches (79 + 132 mm.). 



The 6th upper labial was longest and deepest on the right 

 side of hea,d, and the 5th on the left. 



It had 31 scales round mid-body, and agreed in every respect 

 save coloration with tlie description given in the Catidogue. 



Above greenish-olive ; sides of head, nfipe, and back sprinkled 

 with groon and blnclc H|)ots. llinis of eyelid briglit yellow. A 

 creamy stripe, black-edged above, below eye. Borders of ear- 

 opening yellow. An orange side-stripe commencing at ear 

 vanishes on base of tail ; sides below this pale bluish-grey, belly 

 gamboge-yellow. Throat blui.sh, a few black marblings on sides 

 of throat and base of tail. 



Mabuia maculilabuis Gray. 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1887, p, 164. 



Four females from Frere Town, Mkindo River, Kipera, and 

 Jumbe Sunguru's, near Kilosa ; two were seen at Kidete. 



In some specimens the toes of the adpressed hind-limb only 

 just reach the lingers, instead of reaching to, or nearly as far aSj 

 the elbow. 



The Kipera female measured 9j^ inches (82-1-168), and had 

 seven white eggs in her ovary measuring 14xi)mm. In her 

 *;tomach was a small frog ! 



Mabuia planiprons Peters. 



Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1887, p. 167. 



Mabuia diesnerl Sternfeld, S.B. Ges. naturf. Berlin, p. 348, 

 1911. 



Four specimens from Ndogwe, Ulugu, Izikisiti., and Tabora. 



The Ndogwe individual was found in open Mbwgwe country 

 with scattered thorn-bush. It l)olted into a rat-hole at the root 

 of one of these, from which it was dugout. The Ulugu and 

 Izikisia specimens were seen on tree-trunks, and sought shelter 

 in fissures in the bark or holes in the bole. The Tabora 

 specimen was found freshly killed in a roadside shelter. Yet 

 another was seen at Luguo 



