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hand, the digits are covered with four rows of scales, a dorsal, a ventral, and a 
lateral for each side, with no trace of denticulation or fringing, the digits being 
essentially like those of Eumeces. It is thus evident that in its feet, as in its general 
form and non-angulated body, the nearest ally of this genus is Eumeces. The detail 
in which it shows an affinity with Scincus is in the form of the labials, for, as in 
that genus, the ripper labials are first slightly directed outwards and then inwards, 
while the lower labials manifest an intensification of the ridge that occurs in Scincus. 
In all the forms referable to Scincus the body has a ridge running along the sides, 
and the scales are perfectly smooth and almost glassy in their polished surfaces, 
whereas, in Scincopus, the sides of the body are round and the scales are grooved and 
show fine, irregular ridges. 
Scincopus fasciatus, Peters. (Plate XXVI.) 
Scincus officinalis, part., Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii. ser.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 41. 
Scincus (Scincopus) fasciatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1864, p. 45. 
Cyclodus brandtii, Strauch, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. x. 1866, p. 459. 
Scincus fasciatus, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 390; Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 137. 
Scincopus fasciatus, Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 104. 
1 ? . Suakin. Colonel Sir Charles Holled Smith, C.B., K.C.M.G. 
3 J, 4 ?, and 1 juv. Suakin. Surgeon-Captain K. H. Penton, D.S.O. 
2 <J. Suakin. 
Head shortly pyramidal, swollen in the temporal region, but longer than broad ; 
snout obtusely truncate ; loreal region concave ; lower labials with a ridge along their 
middle, the intervening space between the ridge and the lower border of the upper 
labials concave. Ear-opening large, near the commissure of the mouth, covered by 
two large opercula. Rostral considerably broader than high, convex from above 
downwards, and from side to side, and without a trenchant margin ; supranasals 
broadly in contact with the rostral; frontonasal rather small, hexagonal, broader 
behind than in front, its anterior breadth less than, and its posterior breadth greater 
than its length; frontal slightly longer than the conjoint prefrontals, frontonasal, and 
supranasals, its lateral margins slightly concave and its posterior equalling two-thirds 
of its anterior breadth ; six supraoculars, the second and third in contact with the 
frontal ; four or five superciliaries ; interparietal somewhat longer than the fronto- 
parietals and generally separating the parietals posteriorly, rarely merged in the 
surrounding shields ; generally four pairs of nuchals, sometimes amalgamated with the 
parietals. Two or three loreals, the first higher than long, in contact with the fronto- 
nasal, supranasal, posterior nasal, second and third labials, second loreal, and 
prefrontal ; the second considerably longer than high, in contact with the prefrontal, 
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