MABUIA QULS'QUET.ENIATA. 187 
scincid^:. 
MABUIA. 
Mabuia, part., Fitz. Neue Class. Rept. 1826, p. 23; Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 150. 
Limbs well developed ; digits 5 — 5, more or less cylindrical or compressed, with 
transverse lamellae below. Nostril in a single nasal. Eyelids movable ; lower eyelid 
with a more or less transparent disk, either undivided or broken up. Ear distinct ; 
tympanum deeply sunk. Postnasal present or absent ; supranasals, prefrontals, and 
frontoparietals present ; interparietal single or double, generally distinct, occasionally 
confluent with the parietals. Palatine bones in contact in the middle line of the 
palate ; pterygoids with or without teeth, separated by the palatal notch which is 
prolonged forwards mesially to the centre line of the orbits. Maxillary teeth either 
with conical or with bicuspid crowns. 
Mabuia quinquet^xiata, Licht. (Plate XXIV. figs. 1-3.) 
Scincus quinquetaniatus, Liclit. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. 1823, p. 103. 
Mabuya quinquetaniata, Fitz. Neue Class. Rept. 1826, p. 52. 
Scincus savignyi, Aud. Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ?1829, p. 177, Suppl. pi. ii. figs. 3. i-3. i, et 
var. fig. 4. i. 
Tiliqua quinquestriata, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 290. 
Euprepes savignyi, Dum. & Bibr. v. 1839, p. 677 ; Gravenh. N. Acta Leop.-Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. 
p. 329, pi. xxxiii. ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1854, p. 618; Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, 
p. 109 ; Lortet, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 187; Prancaviglia, Boll. Soc. Rom. 
Zool. 1896, p. 35. 
Euprepes quinquetaniatus, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 112; Riippell, Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, 
p. 304; Blanf. Zool. Abyss. 1870, p. 456; Steindach. Unger & Kotschy, Insel Cypern, 1865, 
p. 573. 
Euprepes margaritifer, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1854, p. 618; Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1872, 
p. 80. 
Euprepes [Euprepes) margaritifer, Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. 1882, p. 64, pi. x. fig. 1. 
Euprepis gularis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 61. 
Euprepis kirkii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 62, pi. ix. fig. 1. 
Euprepes binotatus, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 1867, p. 230, pi. 3. fig. 3. 
Mabuia quinquetaniata, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 198 ; Ann. Mus. Civ. G-enova, ser. 2, 
xvi. (xxxvi.) 1896, p. 551; op. cit. xvii. (xxxvii.) 1897, p. 278; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 215; 
Boettger, Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 100; Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 
1896, p. 104. 
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