962 Mil. A. LOVEUIDGE : NOTES ON 



Mabuia irregulauis Lonnb, 



Loimb. Arkiv for Zool. Band 14, No. 12, 1922. 

 Lonnbeig has recently described a skink from Soy, Kenya 

 Colony, as Mabuia (striata '^ var.) irregularis n.?, which is so very 

 similar to three of my specimens that I do not hesitate in referring 

 thorn to it, tliongli the two immMtnre ones are so dried up tliat 

 tliey are of little use. These three skinks were collected for ine 

 on Mt. Kenya at an altitude between 1 0,000-1 1,()U0 feet by 

 Dr. J. Arthur. I think the species is quite distinct from 

 M, striata. fhe only differences between LiJnnberg's description 

 and my adult skink are (1) parietals are in contact behind inter- 

 parietal, (2) a single piiir of enlarged nuchnls. 



The largest agrees with M. irregularis in differing from typical 

 M. striata in the following points, though M. striata being such 

 a variable species, most of, if not all, these variations have been 

 recorded froin time to time: — 



(i.) Anterior loreal not in contact with the first labial, 

 (ii.) Two pairs of supranasals. 



(iii.) Frontonasal (in its divided state) longer than broad, 

 (iv.) Frontal shorter than the frontoparietal and inter- 

 parietal together, 

 {v.) Four supraciliaries, second largest, 

 (vi.) The supraocular is very loell separated from lip. 

 Length of adulb 6 inches (69 + 83). . 



LygosoMa sundevalli Smith. 

 Blgr. Oat. Liz. iii, 1887, p, 307, 



Ten specimens from I)ar es Sala.am, Mkata Iliver, Kilosa, and 

 Mwanza in Tanganyiica Territoi-y ; Nairobi, Kisumu, and Karungu 

 Bay in Kenya Colony. 



The Mkata specimen was taken deep down in a termite heap. 

 At Kilosa quite a number were taken in snap back rat-traps ; 

 ])resumably insects went to the bread or cheese bait, and the skinks 

 followed for the insects. At Karungu 13ay and Kisumu these 

 lizards were living beneath the boulders on the lake shore. 



A female 9| inches (130-|-102) surpassed all my previous 

 records and was the one taken from the termite heap. 



A Nairobi male is much mottled on the under surface, like the 

 Morogoro specimens referred to in my last collection ; it is in 

 striking contrast to all the other specimens collected this time, 

 which are pure white beneath. 



Four developing ovules (11 x 10 mm.) were taken from a skink 

 at Kilosa on 1, ii. 21 and four from the Mkata specimen on 

 30, viii. 21. A very young skink (35+ 25) was caught at Karungti 

 Bay on 16. xi. 22. 



Lygosoma ferrandi Blgr. 



Blgr. Ann. del Mus. Civ. (2) xviii. 1898, p. 718. 

 Kilambamukoot is the Kinyaturu name and Kimilikuta tlie 

 Xinyiramba, 



