178 SCINCIDA. 
the back, to the var. fellowsit with regular black cross bars on the body. 
All specimens agree in the following points :—Two bands, lighter 
than the ground-colour, which is brownish or greyish, extend along 
each side, the upper from the supraciliary border, the lower from 
below the eye; the interspace between these bands dark brown 
with small whitish spots, or irregularly spotted with darker brown ; 
a narrow vertebral zone constantly remains unspotted; lower 
surfaces uniform whitish. In the Arabian specimen and in one of 
the Persian, the four blackish longitudinal bands are distinct on the 
nape. In the specimens from Asia Minor (var. fellowsii) longitu- 
dinal dark bands are absent, and the interspace between the three 
unspotted dorsal streaks is occupied by more or less regular dark — 
brown cross bands. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 218 Fore limb ........ 25 
Head sis gs ees set 17 Hind limb........ 35 
Width of head .... 18 add cia sits. eee ore ae 130 
BOG yi akin characte ; 71 
Abyssinia, Arabia, Syria, Asia Minor, Persia, Sind. 
a. Ad. Muscat, Arabia. W. T. Blanford, we [P.}. 
b-d, Ad. Teheran. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 
e. Her. Between Isfahanand W. T. Blantord, Esq. [C.]. 
Teheran. Ratan (P) 
—m. Ad.,hgr.,&yg. Xanthus, ir C. Fellows [P.]. 
. errs (Types of Eupreps fellowsit.) 
n-p. Ad. Xanthus. Hider Collection. 
g. Ad. Smyrna. R. MacAndrew, Esq. [P.]. 
28, Mabuia innotata. 
Euprepes innotatus, Blanford, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 
p. 854, pl. xvi. fig. 9. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 
disk. Nostril pierced behind the vertical of the suture between the 
rostral and the first labial; no postnasal ; anterior loreal in contact 
with the first labial; frontonasal broader than long, in contact with 
the rostral and (not constantly) with the frontal; latter a little 
shorter than the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in con- 
tact with the second supraocular only; four supraoculars, second 
very large; six supraciliaries; froutoparietals distinct, slightly 
shorter than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals ; 
a pair of nuchals; four labials anterior to the subocular, which is at 
least twice as long as the neighbouring labials, and not narrowed 
inferiorly. Ear-opening triangular, a little larger than a lateral 
seale, with three or four short lobules anteriorly. Nuchal and 
lateral scales mostly feebly tricarinate; dorsals quinquecarinate ; 
34 (or 32) scales round the middle of the body. The hind limb 
reaches the wrist of the adpressed fore limb. Subdigital lamella 
smooth. Tail about once and three fourths the length of head 
