7. MABUIA. 208 
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 a half to once 
and two thirds the length of head and body. Olive or brownish 
above, with small dark brown spots and light dots, with or without 
two or three paler dorsal bands; a whitish, dark-edged lateral band, 
beginning on the upper lip and passing through the ear; lower 
surfaces whitish. 
millim,. millim. 
Total length ...... 165 Fore limb........ 19 
ead igus suoe are eons 14 Hind limb........ 27 
Width of head .... 10 Taille ies siecivarns 100 
Body. é:siesisaecws as 51 
_ Africa south of the equator. 
a, b,c, Ad, & her. 8S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
d, Several spec.: ad. Cape Colony. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 
& hgr. 
é. ng Pt. Natal. Mr. T. Ayres [P.]. 
f. Yg. Pt. Elizabeth. A. E. Craven, Esq. [P.]. 
g-k. Ad. & her. Angola, Mr. Rich [C.]. 
59. Mabuia bocagii. 
Euprepes quinqueteniatus (non Licht.), Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 
1867, p. 44. 
—— petersi (non Steind.), Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv, 1872, p. 74. 
Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a large undivided trans- 
parent disk. Nostril anterior to the vertical of the suture between 
the rostral and the first labial; a postnasal; anterior loreal not in 
contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the 
rostral; frontonasal broader than, long, forming a suture with the 
frontal; latter as long as or a little shorter than the frontoparietal 
and interparietal together, in contact with the second and third 
supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first small, second very large; 
five supraciliaries, second largest; frontoparietal distinct, a little 
smaller than the interparietal; parietals forming a suture behind 
the interparietal; a pair of nuchals; five Jabials anterior to the 
subocular, which is much narrowed inferiorly. ar-opening oval, 
as large as the transparent palpebral disk, with four or five long 
pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal and nuchal scales strongly quin- 
quecarinate, laterals tricarinate ; 36 to 38 scales round the middle 
of the body, dorsals largest. 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 about once and a half the length of head and body. Olive- 
brown above, black-dotted, with five yellowish, black-edged bands, 
the lower (lateral) beginning below the eye and passing through 
the ear; lower surfaces whitish. 
