160 SCINCID.2. 
(or three) supraoculars, the first very small and sometimes absent ; 
six or seven supraciliaries ; frontoparictals coalesced to a single 
shield ; parietals and interparietal coalcsced to a single subcrescentic 
shield, followed by a pair of nuchals; fifth and sixth upper labials 
below the eye, the foymer not much larger than the latter. Har- 
opening oval, considerably larger than the eye-opening, with a few 
minute projecting lobules or granules anteriorly. Nuchal and . 
dorsal scales strongly tricarinate ; 54 scales round the middle of the 
body, subequal. The limbs overlap when adpressed. Subdigital 
lamelle smooth. Tail a little longer than head and body. Olive- 
brown above, with small darker and lighter spots, and three lighter 
longitudinal dorsal bands, the vertebral of which is a little narrower 
than the others and does not extend beyond the base of the tail; a 
small blackish spot in the axilla. Lower surfaces greenish grey, 
with more or less distinct darker variegations ; chin, and sometimes 
a median ventral zone, yellowish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 257 Fore limb........ 33 
Head ..si enone ets 22 Hind limb........ 46 
Width of head .... 18 all: pees gie4 ces 135 
Body .........-4- 100 
St. Jago, Cape Verde Islands. 
a-e. Ad. St. Jago. Rey. R. T. Lowe [P.]. 
Named in honour of Professor L. Vaillant. 
5. Mabuia punctata. (Pare IX. fig. 1.) 
Euprepis maculatus, Gray, Cat. p. 111. 
—— panctatus, Gray, 1. ¢. 
Tiliqua punctata, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1888, p. 289. 
maculata, Gray, é. e. 
Euprepes maculatus, 4. Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 159; Bocourt, 
Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 410, pl. xxii. c. fig. 3. 
Mabouya punctatissima, O'Shaughn. Ann. §. Mag. N. H. (A) xiii. 
1874, p. 800, 
Snout elongate, obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid with a trans- 
parent disk. A postnasal; anterior loreal not, or but slightly, in 
contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the 
rostral ; frontonasal broader than long ; preefrontals forming a short 
median suture, or narrowly separated; frontal about as long as the 
frontoparietals and interparietal together, usually in contact with 
the first, second, and third supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second 
largest ; five supraciliaries; frontoparietals two, about as large as 
the interparietal; parietals in contact behind the interparietal ; one 
pair of nuchals; four or five labials anterior to the subocular, 
which is large and not narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening nearly as 
large as the eye-opening, vertically oval, with a series of minute 
projecting lobules or granules on its front border. Dorsal scales 
more or less distinctly tri- or quinquecarinate; 34 to 38 scales 
