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THE EEPTILES OF EGYPT. 
seven upper labials, the fifth below the eye. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. 
Ear oval, not much larger than the transparent disk of the eye, with 2 or 3 lobules at 
its anterior border, the upper the larger and triangular in form. Dorsal scales strongly 
tricarinate ; the nuchals with many feeble carinas. Thirty to thirty-four rows of scales 
round the middle of the body, the median dorsal scales but very slightly larger than the 
lateral. The fore limb when laid forward reaches, as a rule, the middle of the eye, but 
in some it is only halfway between the ear and the eye ; the hind limb is invariably 
considerably shorter than the interval between the axilla and the groin ; subdigital 
lamella? smooth. Tail once and a half as long as the body and head, sometimes less. 
Dark olive-brown above : a broadish, pale, mesial, dorsal band, edged with black, 
from the nape to the base of the tail ; on each side a very narrow pale lateral line, 
sometimes white and more or less edged with black, from the side of the neck to the 
base of the tail ; and another, somewhat broader, from in front of and below the eye, 
through the ear, and along the side to the tail, edged above and below with black ; 
plates of the head, and frequently the dorsal scales, edged with brownish black ; under- 
parts yellowish white, with a greenish tinge. 
Measurements in millim. o/'M. vittata, Oliv., with the variations in its scales 
and in the number of its ear-lobules. 
Sex. 
Snout 
to 
vent. 
Tail. 
Fore 
limb to 
Bnout. 
Fore limb 
measured 
posteriorly. 
Axilla 
to 
groin. 
Hind limb 
measured 
oosterinrly. 
Postnasal. 
Ear- 
lobules. 
Scales 
round 
body. 
Locality. 
?.... 
68 
22-8 
16-2 
38-5 
24-8 

2 
32 
Alexandria. 
6 .... 
60 
22 
16 
34-2 
25-2 

2 
34 
„ 
6 .... 
61 
84 
21-3 
15-5 
33-8 
24-5 

2 
32 
» 
6 .... 
61 
103 
22 
14-8 
33-5 
23 

2 
33 
» 
6 .... 
60 
21 
14-9 
34 
22-5 

2 
32 
» 
?.... 
57 
84 
20 
15 
30 
24 

2 
34 
Gizeh, alluvium. 
<$.... 
66 
108 
21-5 
15 
34 
25 

2 
34 
Eayum. 
?.... 
57 
100 
19-5 
14-2 
30-5 
23 

2 
32 
„ 
?.... 
58 
102 
20 
15 
30 
22 

2 
33 
„ 
?.... 
61-5 
20-5 
15-5 
34-5 
24-5 

2 
32 
» 
Juv. . . 
43 
15-5 
11 
23-2 
16 

2 
34 
» 
This scink is not rare on the roadsides and in the gardens outside Alexandria, and to 
