7. MABUIA. 177 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 180 Fore limb ........ 18 
Head ............ 15 Hind limb...,.... 29 
Width of head .... Il TP AILS esto teagan 105 
BOdy* sired cw bie dis 60 
North Africa, Syria. 
a-g. Ad. & hgr. Cabes, Tunis. M. F. Lataste [C.]. 
h, Ad. Between Khan Tubb Tusefand Dr. Anderson [P.]. 
. Ain Mellaha, Egypt. 
a, Ad. Between Kefr Hawar and Dr. Anderson [P.]. 
Artuz, N.E. slope of Mt, 
Hermon. 
k, Ad. Mt. Hermon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
in, Ad. Galilee. Canon Tristram [C 
o, Ad. Jerusalem. Canon Tristram | C.]. 
p. Ad. Merom. Canon Tristram [C. ]. 
g. Ad, Beersheba. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
r, Ad. Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
27. Mabuia septemtzniata. 
Euprepis fellowsii, Gray, Cat. p. 113. 
septemtzniatus, Gray, l.c. 
Euprepis septemteniatus, Reuss, Mus. Senckenb. i. p. 47, pl. iti. 
fig. 1; Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 680; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 388 
Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 352. 
—— affinis, De Filippi, Viag. in Persia, p. 354. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 
disk. Nostril entirely or greater part behind the vertical of the 
suture between the rostral and the first labial; normally no post- 
nasal; anterior loreal in contact with the first labial; supranasals 
in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, in con- 
tact with the truncate anterior angle of the frontal; latter shield as 
long as, or a little longer than, the frontoparietals and interparietal 
together, in contact with the second, or first and second, or second 
and third supraoculars; four supraoculars, second largest and but 
rarely touching the praefrontal ; five (rarely four or six) supraciliaries ; 
frontoparietals two, smaller than the interparietal, which entirely 
separates the parietals; one (or two) pair of nuchals; four labials 
anterior to the subocular; latter not narrowed inferiorly, about 
twice as large as the neighbouring labials. Ear-opening oval-sub- 
triangular, about as large as a lateral scale, with two or three minute 
projecting lobules anteriorly. Dorsal scales more or less distinctly 
tricarinate, sometimes almost smoath ; the scales on the neck and 
flanks smooth or very feebly keeled; 34 to 38 scales round the 
middle of the body ; dorsals a little larger than laterals and ventrals. 
The adpressed limbs overlap. Subdigital lamell~ smooth or obtusely 
unicarinate. Tail about once and a half .as long as head and body. 
The coloration varies extremely, with complete gradation between the 
typical form from Abyssinia, with four longitudinal black bands along 
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