7. MABUIA. 201 
the middle of the body, subequal. The hind limb reaches the elbow 
of the adpressed fore limb, or nearly so far. Subdigital lamelle 
smooth or tubercular. Tail once and a half to once and three fourths 
the length of head and body. Olive-brown above, sides blackish ; 
back with small black and light spots or ocelli; two or three light 
streaks on each side; lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 183 Fore limb ........ 22 
SHO AG, Grecscesaiantse-o 15 Hind limb........ 33 
Width of head .... 11 SRAM cals scenavcea nis 113 
Body? ct strane 55 
Madagascar. 
a, Ad. Madagascar. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 
b-c. Ad. & her. Madagascar. J. Caldweil, Ta [P.]. 
d. Ad. Madagascar. 
ef. Ad. & her. Antananarivo. Rev. J. Wills [C.]. 
g-l. Ad. & yg. Near Tamatave. Rey. W. D. Cowan [C.]. 
m. Ad. ig Zoological Society. 
_ 56, Mabuia bayonii. . 
Euprepes gravenhorstii (non D. § B.), Bocage, Jorn, Sc. Lisb. i. 1866, 
p. 21. 
—— bayonii, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1872, p. 75. 
The only differences I can find for separating this Mabuia from 
the preceding are the larger size of the ear-lobules, which cover a 
considerable part of the ear-opening, and the shorter limbs, which 
scarcely overlap. 
Angola and Mossamedes. 
a Ad. Duque de Bragance, Angola. Prof. B. du Bocage [P.]. 
57. Mabuia isselii. 
Euprepes (Euprepis) isselii, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1871, p. 567. 
Euprepis quinqueteniatus, part., Blanford, Zool. Abyss. p. 456. 
‘ Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a large undivided trans- 
parent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the 
rostral and the first labial; a postnasal; anterior loreal not or but 
slightly in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact - 
behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long, sometimes in 
contact with the frontal; latter shorter than the frontoparictal and 
interparietal together, in contact with the second and third supra- 
oculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; five supraciliaries, second 
longest; frontoparietals fused to a single shield, which is as long as 
or longer than the interparietal; parietals forming a suture behind 
the interparietal; a pair of nuchals; four (or five) labials anterior 
to the subocular, which is feebly but distinctly narrowed inferiorly. 
Ear-opening suboval, smaller than the transparent palpebral disk, 
