7. MABUIA. 189 
Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little larger than a, lateral scale, 
+ + Without projecting lobules. 28 (or 26) scales round the middle of 
the body; dorsals slightly larger than the others, smooth or feebly 
bicarinate. The hind limb reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore 
limb. Subdigital lamelle smooth. Tail more than twice as long 
as head and body. Olive-brown above; a broad dark brown band 
on each side; lower surfaces whitish. 
milim. 
Total length ...... 340 Fore limb ........ 82 
Head is seers 22 Hind limb........ 47 
Width of head .... 15 alll, ejaust eine Sates 225 
Body ............ 93 
Siam, Southern China. 
a. Yg. Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. (Type.) 
b. Ad. Hainan. R. Suichos. Esq. ot 
41. Mabuia longicaudata. 
Euprepis longicaudata, Hallow. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (2) xi. 
1856, p. 77, pl. iv. fig. 1. 
In habit similar to M. carinata. Lower eyelid with a trans- 
parent disk. A postnasal. Head-shields as in M.carinata. 30 scales 
round the body, dorsals distinctly bicarinate ; laterals indistinctly 
bicarinate. Olive-green above, white with a tinge of green below; 
a broad black lateral band extending from behind the eye to the base 
of the tail. 
Siam. 
42. Mabuia aurata. 
Mabouya enea, Gray, Cat. p. 94. 
Scincus auratus, part., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 176. ; 
bistriatus, Spir, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras, p. 28, pl. xxvi. 
fig. 1. 
mTiliqua bistriatus, Gray, Griff. A. K, ix. Syn. p. 69. 
enea, Gray, 1. c. p. 70. - 
? Tiliqua albolabris, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p, 292. 
Eumeces spixii, part., Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 642. _ : 
Euprepes auratus, Gravenh. N. Acta Ac. Leop-Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. 
p. 821, pl. xxxli.; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ae, 1864, p. 51; Bocourt, 
Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 412, pl. xxii. c. fig. 7. : 
Euprepis surinamensis, Hallow. Trans. Am. Philos, Soc, (2) xi. 1856, 
p. 80, pl. iv. fig. 2. . 
Mabuia surinamensis, Cope, Proc. dc. Philad, 1862, p. 186. 
. —— unimarginata, Cope, J. c. p. 187. 
Euprepes (Mabuia) auratus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1877, p. 412. 
Mabara agilis, part., Bocourt, J. c. p. 395, pl. xxii. a. fig. 2. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans- 
parent disk. A postnasal ; anterior loreal usually not touching the 
first labial; supranaals in contact behind the rostral ;' frontonasal 
