7. MABUIA, 195 
48. Mabuia megalura. 
Euprepes (Mabuia) megalurus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1878, p. 204, 
pl. il. fig. 4 *, 
P EKumeces massaianus, Fischer, Jahrb. Hamb, Wiss, Anst. i. 1884, 
p. 18, pl. ii. fig. 5. 
_Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent 
disk. A postnasal; supranasals in contact behind the rostral ; 
frontonasal nearly twice as broad as long, in contact with or 
narrowly separated from the frontal; latter scarcely larger than 
the interparietal, in contact with the second and third supraoculars ; 
four supraoculars, first very small ; frontoparietals distinct ; parietals 
entirely separated ; a pair of nuchals; four labials anterior to the 
subocular, which is much elongate. Ear-opening a nearly hori- 
zontal cleft, with an elongate scale in front. All the scales 
perfectly smooth, 24 round the body, ventrals largest. The hind 
limb reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore limb. Subdigital 
lamelle tubercular. Tail three times as long as head and body. 
oe above, with a light lateral band, beginning from the upper 
Pp. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 283 Fore limb.,...... 20 
PCA vi.6 aba dave veces 12 Hind limb ...... 26 
Body? a. ceseavue: 56 Tra se sisi sesosta fos . 215 
East Africa (Taita, Cacoma, Adal. Berl. Mus.). 
49. Mabuia trivittata. 
Euprepis carinatus, Gray, Cat. p. 115. 
a carinatus (non Schneid.), Merrem, Beitr. Gesch. Amph. p. 109, 
ix. : 
Mibage carinata, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 52. 
. Scincus trivittatus, Cur. R. A. 2nd ed. ii. p. 62. 
Tiliqua capensis, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 68. 
ascensionis, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 290. 
Euprepes merremii, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 671; Gravenh. N. Acta Ac. 
eop.- Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. p. 317, pl. xxxii. 
Euprepes trivittatus, Smith, IU. 8. Afr., Rept., App. p. 11. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a large undivided trans- 
parent disk, Nostril just above or behind the vertical of the suture 
between the rostral and the first labial; a postnasal, frequently in 
contact with the second as well as with the first labial; supranasals 
in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long; pre- 
frontals usually forming a median suture ; frontal shorter than the 
frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the second 
and third, and sometimes also the first, supraoculars; four supra- 
* Type examined. 
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