150 : SOINCID-, 
large, forming a median suture; frontal a little shorter than fronto- 
parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the three an- 
terior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest; six supra- 
ciliaries; interparietal much narrower than the frontoparietals, 
entirely separating the parietals; a pair of large nuchals; fifth 
upper labial below the centre of the eye. LEar-opening a little 
larger than the eye-opening, with three projecting lobules ante- 
riorly. Scales very small, dorsals and laterals bicarinate, ventrals a 
little larger and smooth ; 106 (to 113) scales round the middle of 
the body. Preanal scales a little enlarged. The adpressed limbs 
slightly overlap. Tail cylindrical (as long as head and body); 
upper caudal scales feebly tricarinate. Greyish olive above, with 
darker and lighter dots; lower surfaces yellowish, with small 
greyish spots, 
willim. millim. 
From snout to vent . 275 Fore limb........ 80 
ead isaiaiee Sache 58 Hind limb ...... 100 
Width ofhead .... 50 
Theo Branco, Cape Verde Islands. 
a, Ad. Dr. W. K. Parker [P.]. 
7. MABUIA*. 
Mabuya, part., Fitzing. N. Classif. Rept. p.23; Gray, Cat. Liz, p. 98 ; 
Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 393. 
Spondylurus, Fitzing. I.c.; Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 11. 
are part., Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 161; Wiegm. lL. c., and Arch, 
J. Nat. 1837, p. 181; Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 663; Gray, 1. ¢. p. 110; 
Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 78; Bocourt, l.c. p. 409. 
Tiliqua, part., Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. or, and Ann. N. H. ii, 
1838, p. 288, and Cat. Liz. p. 108. 
Eumeces, part., Dum. § Bibr. p. 629; Giinth. 1. ¢. p. 84. 
Trachylepis, Tschudi, Faun. Per., Rept. p. 44. 
‘Xystrolepis, Tschudi, 1. e. 
Copeoglossum, Tschudi, 1. c. p. 45. 
Palatine bones in contact mesially ; palatal notch separating 
entirely the pterygoids, extending forwards to between the centre 
of the eyes; pterygoid teeth minute or absent. Maxillary teeth 
conical or bicuspid. Eyelids movable. Lar distinct, tympanum 
more or less deeply sunk. WNostril pierced in a single nasal ; supra- 
* 1. Seincus cesius, Kuhl, Beitr. z. Zool. u. Vergl. Anat. p. 180.—Hab. ? 
2. teres punctata, Tschudi, Faun. Per., Rept. p. 44, pl. iii. fig. 1.— 
eru. 
3. Euprepes bilineatus, Grandidier, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1869, p. 340,— 
Madagascar. 
4. Euprepes longicaudatus (non Hallow.), Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
xl. 1871, p. 18.—Cachar. 
5. Euprepes sakalava, Grandidier, Ann. Sc. Nat. (5) xv. 1872, art. 20.— 
Madagascar. 
6 
. Euprepes aureoqularis, F, Miller, Verh, Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, 
p- 707.—Gold Coast. ; 
