EAST AFRICAN LIZARDS. 



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scales and a tail fragment, probably belonging to this species, 

 were taken from the stomachs of two Skinks {Lygosoma sunde- 

 valli). Three were found in the stomach of a snake {Chlorophis 

 neglectus), Nairobi (17. vii. 18). 



ScELOTES EGGELi (Torniei'). 



Torn. Zool. Anz. xxv. 1902, p. 700. 



Eight specimens of this Skink which was described by Tornier 

 from CJsambara, G.E.A.,were taken at Lumbo in July and August 

 1918. The coloration during life as noted at the time was as 

 follows : — " Copper-coloured above, becoming plumbeous on tail ; 

 dirty bluish white below ; the two separated by a very dai-k 

 brown or blackish lateral band, well defined above but merging 

 into the bluish white below. Throat sometimes spotted." 



Largest male measured 3| inches (63-32 mm., tail short and 

 regenerated), largest female 4^ inches (67-38 mm., also regene- 

 rated). Smaller specimens with uninjured tails show that the 

 tail should equal the length of head and body. 



In ovaries of two females taken at Lumbo in July 1918 were 



Text-fi<iure 1. 



Scolecoseps hoidengeri. 



. Scolecoseps, gen. nov. 



Among the lizards collected at Lumbo were seven specimens 

 of a limbless burrowing Skink i-eferable to no known genus. 



Generic descrijytion. Characters as in Melanoseps, but nostril 

 pierced in the very large rostral, with whose posterior border it is 

 connected by a horizontal cleft, as in Acoutias. 



Locality. South East Africa. 



Scolecoseps boulengeri, sp. n. (Text-^'g. 1.) 



Specific diagnosis. Snout conical, sti'onglj^ pi'ojecting, length 

 of the rostral a little more than one-fifth that of the head. 

 Internasals in contact, sometimes very narrowly, separating 

 rostral from fronto-nasal, which is twice as broad as long. Frontal 

 equal to or but little larger than fronto-nasal. Interparietal 



