166 SCINCIDE. 
Subdigital lamelle smooth. Tail about twice as long as head and 
body. Olive-brown above, usually with a more or less distinct 
broad dark brown lateral band, beginning from the snout and 
passing through the eye, bordered inferiorly by a whitish streak ; 
these bands may be quite indistinct ; back uniform, or with small 
irregular dark spots, or with longitudinal dark brown streaks ; 
lower surfaces whitish. 
: millim. millim 
Totallength ...... 215 Fore limb........ 24 
Head ............ 17 Hindlimb ...... 33 
Width of head. .... 11 Tail i cavevcew'ear 140 
Body ce eames 58 
West Africa. 
a. Ad. W. Africa. Mr. Raddon [C.]. (Type.) 
b, c-e, f-9, h, i. Ad., W. Africa. 
her., & yg. ’ : 
k, Ad. Sierra Leone. Dr. J. G. Fischer. (rare of 
Euprepes pantentt 
7, Ad. Guinea. 
m., Ad. Niger. 
n. Ad. Gaboon. 
12. Mabuia affinis. (Pxave X. fig. 2.) 
Tiliqua rufescens, part., Gray, Cat. p. 109. 
Tiliqua affinis, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1888, p. 289, 
Very near M, raddonii, from which it differs in the rather more 
elongate head, longer limbs, and the presence of five supraciliaries 
instead of six or seven. The hind limb reaches halfway between 
the elbow and the axilla. 28 scales round the body. 
The unique specimen, which measures 60 millim from snout to 
vent, is in bad state ; it is discoloured and has lost the tail. 
a, Ad. —?P (Type.) 
13. Mabuia depressa*. 
Euprepes depressus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 618, and Reise n. 
Mossamb. iii. p. 71, pl. x. fig. 4. 
Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. 
Nostril just above the suture between the rostral and the first 
labial; a postnasal ; anterior loreal slightly in contact with the first 
labial; frontonasal broader than long, touching the rostral; pre- 
frontals forming a median suture ; frontal as long as the fronto- 
parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the second and 
third supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest and touching 
the prefrontal ; five supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, as 
* Types examined. 
