174 SCINCIDA. 
very short, entirely separated, transversely bisected; two pairs of » 
nuchals ; subocular between the fourth and fifth upper labials, twice 
as long as these shields, not narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening 
small, oval, with two long pointed lobules, upper largest. Dorsal, 
nuchal, and lateral scales sharply quinque- to septemcarinate; 28 
to 30 scales round the middle of the body, dorsals largest. The 
hind limb reaches the wrist or the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, 
Subdigital lamella smooth. Tail once and one fourth or once and 
one third the length of head and body. Olive above; a yellowish 
vertebral band, broadly edged with black, beginning on the vertex, 
sometimes indistinct on the hinder part of the body, which may be 
spotted with yellowish; a black dorso-lateral band, beginning from 
the eye, edged below by a whitish narrower band, which is again 
edged with black; sometimes a second light band, extending from 
axilla to groin. Lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 102 Fore limb........ 14 
Head ic 0 eak sacar 11 Hind limb........ 22 
Width of head .... 9 7°5 Pail’, eivtis “scam eases 57 
Body .......-..4 34 
Carnatic. 
a-e, Ad. & yg. Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
(Types of Euprepis trilineatus.) 
fr. Ad. Carnatic. T, C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
ky Ad. P 
24, Mabuia dorie. (Pare X. fig. 4.) 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans- 
parent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the 
rostral and the first labial ; a postnasal ; anterior loreal just touch- 
ing the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; 
frontonasal broader than long, in contact with the frontal; latter 
longer than the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact 
with the second supraocular only : four supraoculars, second largest ; 
seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, about as large as the 
interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; a pair of 
nuchals; subocular between the fourth and fifth upper labials, not 
twice as long as these shields, not narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening 
a little smaller than the eye-opening, with two or three long 
pointed lobules, upper largest. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales 
with seven or nine sharp keels, two of which are stronger than the 
others ; 34 scales round the middle of the body, dorsals largest. . 
The hind limb reaches the wrist of the adpressed fore limb. Sub- 
digital lamella smooth. Pale olive above, with four longitudinal 
series of small blackish spots on the body; a broad blackish-brown 
lateral band beginning from the nostril and passing through the 
eye; lower surfaces whitish. 
