220 THE REPTILES OF EGYPT. 
Cualcides sepoides, Aud. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 2.) 
Mabuya capistrata, Fitz. (not described), Neue Class. Rept. 1826, p. 52. 
Scincus sepsoides, Aud. Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1829, p. 180, Suppl. pi. 2. figs. 9. i-9. 2. 
Scincits sepsoides, var., Aud. op. cit. p. 181, Suppl. pi. 2. figs. 10. 1-10. 2. 
Sphcenops capistratus, Wagler, Syst. Amph. 1830, p. 161 ; D. & B. v. 1839, p. 578, pi. Ivii. fig. 3 ; 
Riippell, Mus. Senok. iii. 1845, p. 304; Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. (3) x. 1848, p. 204; 
A. Dum. Cat. Rept. Paris Mus. 1851, p. 153; Gravenh. N. Acta Leop. -Carol, xxiii. 1851, i. 
p. 364, pi. xxxix. ; Peters, Mon. Beii. Ak. 1862, p. 272; op. cit. 1864, p. 47; Strauch, 
Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii. ser.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 42 ; Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, 
p. 109; Boettger, Ber. Senck. nat. Ges. 1878-79, p. 72; op. cit. 1879-80, p. 192; Tristram, 
West. Palest., Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 153. 
Sphcenops sepsoides, Reuss, Mus. Senck. i. 1834, p. 54; Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 122; 
Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1880, p. 308. 
Chalcides sepoides, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 407 ; Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 141 ; 
Pfeffer, Jahrb. Hamb. Wissensch. Anst. vi. 1889, p. 9; Boettger, Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 
1893, p. 114; Werner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xliv. 1895, p. 84. 
Chalcides (Sphmnops) sepoides, Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 105. 
6. Between Suez and Ismailia. 
2. Abukir. 
36. Neighbourhood of Pyramids of Gizeh. 
1. Kafr Amar. 
2. Tel el Amarna. 
Snout wedge-shaped, projecting beyond the labial margin. Eye very small ; ear an 
oblique slit close to the angle of the mouth, covered usually by three large pointed 
scales. Nostril anterior to the suture of the rostral and first labial ; a small postnasal 
over the first and second labials ; supranasals generally united as a single shield ; 
frontal broader than long, or as long as broad. Usually four upper labials, the fourth 
below the eye. Body elongate, with the sides angular. Twenty-four rows of smooth 
scales round the body, occasionally twenty-six. Limbs feeble ; the fore limb exceeds 
the distance between the eye and the end of the snout, and the hind limb almost 
iavariably that between the axilla and the eye; digits 5 — 5, occasionally one suppressed 
on fore limb, rarely on the hind limb. Tail elongately conical, about four or five sixths 
the length of the body and head, or occasionally nearly as long. 
Pale yellowish above, with eleven narrow brown longitudinal lines running from the 
occiput and the sides of the head between the rows of scales and continued on to the 
tail, but diminishing in numbers towards its end. A dark streak from the nostril 
through the eye to the temporal region and more or less on to the neck. The frontal 
and the shields behind it margined with brown. Sides and underparts yellowish 
white. 
