196 SCINCID 2. 
oculars, second largest and usually in contact with the prefrontal ; 
five supraciliaries, second largest ; frontoparietals distinct, smaller 
than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals ; a pair 
of nuchals ; four labials anterior to the subocular, which is not much 
enlarged, and not or scarcely narrowed inferiorly. Har-opening 
crescentic, sometimes nearly concealed by the scales of its anterior 
border. Dorsal and nuchal scales strongly tricarinate, laterals 
feebly so; 30 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, equal. 
The adpressed limbs meet, feebly overlap, or fail to meet. Toes 
short ; subdigital lamelle sharply unicarinate. Tail about once 
and a half the length of head and body. Olive or brownish above, 
with transverse blackish spots or cross bands and round pale spots; 
three light bands along the back, vertebral broadest ; lower surfaces 
greyish white. These markings may be indistinct or disappear 
entirely, some specimens being of a uniform olive-brown. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 220 Fore limb........ 27 
Head y3:4 secs e ace 20 Hindlimb ...... 36 
Width of head .... 16 Tail (reproduced).. 100 
Body. ecccgreeveews 100 
South Africa. 
a. Several spec.: ad., 8. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
her., & yg. . 
b-c. Ad. 8. Africa. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 
d. Ad. S. Africa, Dr. Quain [P.]. 
e, f-h. Hgy. & ye. Cape Colony. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 
i-k, Yg. Port Elizabeth. A. E, Craven, Esq. eal 
i,m. Ad. Damaraland. 
n. Her. Is. of Ascension (?). (Type of Tiligua ascen- 
svonis.) 
50. Mabuia occidentalis. 
Euprepes vittatus, var. australis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 19%. 
—— occidentalis, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1867, p. 20. 
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, in contact with 
the first and second labials; supranasals in contact behind the 
rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, in contact with or narrowly: 
separated from the frontal; latter as long as or slightly shorter than 
the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 
second and third, or first, second, and third, supraoculars ; four 
supraoculars, second largest; five supraciliaries, second largest ; 
frontoparietals distinct, smaller than the interparietal, which en- 
* ‘Types examined. 
