202 SCINCID.E. 
with two or three small projecting lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, 
nuchal, and lateral scales strongly tricarinate ; 30 scales round the 
middle of the body, subequal. The hind limb reaches the wrist or 
the elbow of the adpressed fore limb. Scales on the soles sharply 
keeled, spinose ; subdigital lamelle sharply tricarinate, spinose. 
Tail once and one third to once and two thirds the length of head 
and body. Olive above, with small black spots and light dots or 
shafts; two light streaks on each side, the lower, beginning on the 
upper lip and passing through the eye, edged inferiorly with a 
blackish streak; lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 146 Fore limb........ 19 
Head ec cnsstueues 14 Hind limb........ 25 
Width ofhead .... 9 SPAR sg decscodiee senses 85 
Body sess vite eve 47 
Abyssinia. 
a, Ad. Keren, Bogos. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. (One of 
the types.) 
b-d. Ad. & her, Lake Ashanghi. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
58. Mabuia varia. 
Euprepes olivieri (non D. § B.), Smith, Il. 8. Afr., Rept. pl. xxxi. 
figs. 8-5; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 618. 
(Euprepis) varius, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1867, p. 20*, and 
Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 68. 
olivieri, var. albopunctatus, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i, 1867, 
. 223, 
a (Mabuya) levigatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 434*. 
damaranus, Peters, Gifvers. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1869, p. 657 *. 
—— angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Se. Lnsb. iv. 1872, p. 78. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a large undivided trans- 
parent disk. Nostril usually just above or behind the vertical of 
the suture between the rostral and the first labial; a postnasal ; 
anterior loreal usually in contact with the first labial; supranasals 
in contact behind the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long, usually 
in contact with the frontal; latter a little shorter than the fronto- 
parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the second and 
third supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first small, second very large ; 
five supraciliaries, second as large as the three others together ; 
frontoparietals distinct, as large as or smaller than the interparietal ; 
parietals usually meeting behind the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals ; 
four or five labials anterior to the subocular, which is feebly but 
distinctly narrowed inferiorly. Ear-opening oval, oblique, smaller 
than the transparent palpebral disk, with three to five short pointed 
lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales strongly tri- 
carinate ; 30 to 34 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. 
* Types examined. 
