7. MABUTA, 171 
transparent palpebral disk, with two or three long pointed lobules 
anteriorly. Nuchal and dorsal scales rather strongly tricarinate ; 
28 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, equal. The adpressed 
limbs meet or slightly overlap, or fail to meet. Subdigital lamella 
smooth. Tail about once and a half as long as head and body. 
Olive above, with dark brown longitudinal streaks or series of spots ; 
a dark brown lateral band, passing through the eye and above the 
ear, edged inferiorly with a whitish streak, beginning on the upper 
lip and passing through the ear; lower surfaces whitish. 
: millim. millim 
Total length ...... 216 Fore limb ........ 21 
LC ee 16 Hindlimb ...... 33 
Width of head .... 11 Pail: :s.sccme cer wswsis 125 
Body ............ 75 
South Africa. 
a-c. Ad. & hgr. 8. Africa, Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
d-e. Ad. S. Africa. Dr. Shaw. 
f. Ad. : 8. Africa. Dr. J. Lee [P.]. 
g. Ad. stuffed. 8. Africa. | South-African Museum. (Type 
of Euprepis smithii.) 
19. Mabuia gruetzneri *. 
Euprepes (Euprepis) griitzneri, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1869, p. 483. 
In habit and scutellation very similar to M. homalocephala. An- 
terior border of ear with three short rounded lobules. 36 scales 
round the body. Olive above, with five black dorsal lines, with 
series of yellow dots between them; a yellow band on each side, 
commencing on the supraciliary edge, edged below by a broad black 
band; upper labials olive-green, each with a yellow spot. Lower 
surfaces metallic greenish yellow, with more or less distinct darker 
longitudinal lines running between the series of scales. 
Gerlachshoop, S.E. Africa. 
20. Mabuia taitana *. 
Euprepes (Euprepis) taitanus, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1878, p. 208, 
pl. ii. fig. 3. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 
disk. Nostril just above the suture between the rostral and the 
first labial; a postnasal ; supranasals in contact behind the rostral ; 
frontonasal broader than long, in contact with the frontal; latter 
nearly as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 
contact with the second and third supracculars; four supraoculars, 
second largest; frontoparietals distinct, not larger than the inter- 
parietal; a pair of nuchals; subocular large, slightly narrowed 
inferiorly, between the fourth and fifth upper labials. Kar-opening 
_* Types examined. 
