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developed. At Wadi Haifa especially there seems a tendency to their suppression, as 
in 17 out of 34 examples they were practically absent, but the lateral band was well 
developed and bright orange. In the remaining 17, the bands were generally distinct, 
but in a few only feebly developed. 
It is distinguished from the next species (M. vittata) by its somewhat heavier body, 
greater size, longer limbs, the presence of a postnasal, the greater number of lobules in 
front of the ear, and by its more numerous body-scales. 
Mabuu vittata, Olivier. (Plate XXIV. fig. 4.) 
Scincus vittatus, Olivier, Voy. Emp. Oth. &c. iii. 1804, p. 103, Atlas, 2 e livr. pi. 29. fig. 1 ; Aud. 
Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ?1829, p. 178, Suppl. pi. ii. figs. 5 & 5. 2. 
Scincus jomardii, Aud. op. cit. p. 178, Suppl. pi. ii. fig. 6. 
Euprepes olivieri, Dum. & Bibr. v. 1839, p. 674; Gravenh. N. Acta Ac. Leop. -Carol, xxiii. 1851, 
p. 327, pi. xxxii. ; Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 109. 
Euprepes vittatus, Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii. ser.) 1862, iv. no. 7, p. 43; Boettger, 
Zeitsch. ges. Natur. (Giebel) Berl. 1877, p. 288; part., Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-81, p. 187; 
Tristram, West. Palest., Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 151. 
Euprepis (Euprepis) libanoticus, Peters, Mon. Berl. 1864, p. 51. 
Euprepes fel/oiusii (non Gray), Gtinther, Pi'oc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 489. 
Euprepes (Euprepes) vittatus, Boettger, Kobelt, Reiseerin. Alg. u. Tunis, 1885, p. 470. 
Mabuia vittata, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 176; Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 135 ; Ann. 
Mag. N. H. (6) ii. 1888, p. 505 ; Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 16 ; Herpet. Arabia & 
Egypt, 1896, p. 104; Olivier, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii. 1894, p. 113; Peracca, Boll. Mus. 
Torino, ix. 1894, no. 167, p. 8; Werner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1895, xliv. p. 83. 
1 (J and 5. Gardens and roadside, Gabari, Alexandria. 
1. Margin of desert below Pyramids of Gizeh. 
1 <J and 2 9 and 2 others. Fayum. Major R. H. Brown, R.E. 
Snout rather short and blunt ; its length equals the distance between the hinder 
angle of the eye and the posterior border of the ear, or slightly exceeds it ; nostril 
placed behind the rostro-labial suture ; postnasal absent or very rarely present ; supra- 
nasals meeting behind the rostral ; anterior loreal in contact with the postlabial ; 
frontonasal considerably broader than long, generally touching the narrow anterior 
extremity of the frontal, but occasionally shut off from it by the prefrontals ; the 
frontal equals or slightly exceeds the conjoint lengths of a frontoparietal and tbe 
interparietal, and is generally in contact with the second and third supraoculars, and 
sometimes with the first ; parietals meet behind the interparietal, rarely separated 
by it; a pair of transversely elongated nuchals ; four supraoculars, the second the 
largest, generally in contact with the prsefrontal ; four or five superciliaries, rarely six ; 
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