SCINCOPUS FASCIATUS. 
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Measurements &c. of some Examples of S. fasciatus, 
Peters 
(in millim.). 
Ses. 
Snout 
to 
Tent. 
Tail. 
Length 
of 
head. 
Width 
of 
head. 
Upper 
and lower 
labials. 
Labial 
below 
middle 
of orbit. 
Long 
axis of 
eye. 
Length of 
fore limb 
posteriorly. 
Axilla 
to 
groin. 
Length of 
hind limb 
posteriorly. 
Scales 
round 
body. 
Locality. 
89 
56 
23 
17 
T 8 R 1 
L. g-, K. 8 
6 
5 
28 
42 
31-5 
22 
Suakin. 
?.... 
92 
24 
17-6 
8 8 
8 8 
6 
5 
29-3 
45 
31-3 
24 
6 .... 
122 
82 
32 
233 
9 8 
8" 8 
L. 7, E. 6 
6 
37-5 
57 
41-3 
22 
?.... 
124 
80 
30 
23 
8 8 
8 8 
6 
6 
37 
67 
39-5 
24 
?.... 
136 
67 
32 
23-5 
8 8 
8 8 
6 
6 
40 
68 
43 
22 
<J.... 
13S 
74 
33 
24-5 
8 8 
8 8 
6 
6 
40 
71 
43 
22 
139 
73 
35 
27 
8 8 
8 8 
6 
6-5 
42 
71 
44-5 
22 
c? .... 
144 
60 
35 
27 
9 9 
8 8 
7 
6-5 
42 
71 
42-5 
24 
?.... 
144 
85 
35 
26 
8 8 
8 7 
6 
7 
43 
75 
45-5 
22 
d .... 
148 
68 
37 
28 
9 8 
8 8 
L. 7, E. 6 
7 
44 
81 
48-5 
24 
157 
56 
36 
26 
8 8 
8 8 
6 
T 
41-5 
77 
45 
22 
small pieces of animal food. The stomach is provided with stronger muscular walls 
than is generally met with in insectivorous lizards ; and associated with this we find 
that this species is in the habit of swallowing sand, and even small pebbles and other 
hard substances with its food, which largely consists of beetles. I removed, from the 
stomach of one, a pebble 15 millim. long by 2 millim. broad, and also the hard branched 
stem of a plant 22 millim. long and 13 in expanse. 
I much regret that I did not carefully examine the nature of the lizard's pupil in 
life, as when I came to look at it in alcoholic specimens it appeared to be more or less 
vertical, thus implying a nocturnal habit. 
Until the foregoing specimens were obtained at Suakin, only four examples of the 
species existed in the Museums of Europe. Besides the type, described by Peters and 
preserved in the Berlin Museum, another, in the Paris Museum, was picked up dead, 
but in a dried condition, by M. Lataste, on a plain to the south of Gabes, in Tunisia ; 
a third was captured at Khartum, while the fourth, the locality of which is unknown, 
exists in the Museum of St. Petersburg. The species has thus a wide range over 
Northern Africa. 
It is known to the Hadendowahs as the Gull-gull. 
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