188 THE EEPTILES OF EGYPT. 
2 (J and 1 2 . Gardens and roadside, Gabari, Alexandria. 
1 <J and 1 S . Abbasiyeh, near Cairo. Major-General H. M. L. Rundle, D.S.O., G.M.G. 
1 (J, 6 2, and 1 juv. Alluvium, below Gizeh Pyramids. 
1 2 and 3. The Fayum. 
1 S and 1. The Fayum. Major R. H. Brown, R.E. 
4 J 1 and 1 $ . Tel el Amarna. 
5 £ and 3 2 . Roadsides, Assiut. 
4 2 • Banks of Nile, Edfu. 
2 £ and 2 2 • Banks of Nile, Assuan. 
2 rf and 1 2 . Banks of Nile, Phike. 
2 rf and 1 2 • Wadi Haifa. Major Henry d' Alton Harkneas. 
3d and 2 2 • Wadi Haifa. O. Charlton, Esq. 
2 6 , 2 2 , and 2 juv. Wadi Haifa. Surgeon-Captain R. H. Penton, D.S.O. 
1 2 . Suakin. 
Snout moderately long ; its length equals the distance between the hinder angle 
of the eye and the posterior border of tlie ear or slightly exceeds it ; nostril placed 
behind or over the rostro-labial suture ; a postnasal resting on the first labial ; 
supranasals in contact behind the rostral ; anterior loreal generally not in contact 
with the first labial, but not unfrequently feebly so (Egypt) ; frontonasal variable, 
sometimes nearly as broad as long, and in others broader than long, Usually 
excluded from contact with the frontal by the prefrontals, rarely touching the frontal ; 
frontal generally equals the conjoint length of the frontoparietals and interparietal, 
its lateral borders much convergent, in contact with the first to the third supra- 
oculars or only with the second and third ; the parietals meeting behind the 
interparietal or rarely separated by it ; a pair of nuchals ; four supraoculars ; five or 
six superciliaries ; six or eight upper labials, generally the fifth, but occasionally the 
sixth, entering the orbit. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. Ear about the 
length of the eye, with 3 to 5, rarely 6 or 7, short lobules at its anterior border, the 
largest being about the centre of the series, triangular and obtusely pointed. Dorsal 
scales strongly tricarinate ; the nuchals with 4 or 5 feeble carina?. Thirty-five 
to forty-two scales round the middle of the body ; the median dorsal scales are 
the largest. The fore limb when laid forwards reaches to nearly the nostril or 
may fall short of that distance ; the hind limb is generally longer than the interval 
between the axilla and the groin, but not unfrequently shorter ; digital lamella: 
o-enerally smooth, but occasionally with a feeble mesial keel. Tail variable, once 
and a half to once and two-thirds as long as the body and head. 
Brown above, with five yellow or whitish longitudinal bands, three dorsal and two 
lateral, continued on to the base of the tail, and all more or less margined with black. 
Three dark bars or spots, more or less surrounded with white, occur behind the ear on the 
area between the upper and lower lateral white bands ; they are intensely deep bluish 
black in the male during the breeding-season, when the whole under surface of the head 
