206 SCINCID.At. 
little broader than long, in contact with the anterior angle of the 
frontal ; latter shield as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal 
together, in contact with the second and third supraoculars; four 
supraoculars, first small, second largest; five supraciliaries, second 
largest ; frontoparietals distinct, smaller than the interparietal ; 
parietals entirely separated by the interparietal; a pair of nuchals ; 
‘subocular much narrowed inferiorly, bordering the lip between the 
fifth and sixth upper labials. Ear-opening oval, oblique, not quite 
so large as the transparent palpebral disk, with two or three very 
small triangular lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral 
scales strongly tricarinate; 40 scales round the middle of the body, 
subequal, The hind limb reaches the elbow. Scales on the soles 
sharply keeled, spinose ; subdigital lamelle sharply unicarinate. 
Tail nearly once and a half as long as head and body. Olive 
above, with a rather indistinct broad light dorso-lateral band; an 
ill-defined dark brown band from the eye to the side of the body; 
lower surfaces whitish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 180 Fore limb ........ 23 
ead sickened 17 Hind limb........ 33 
Width of head .... 12 aad) satin scateiecasy ay 105 
Body .........44. 58 
Damaraland. 
Perhaps not specifically distinct from M. striata. 
64. Mabuia sulcata*. 
Euprepes olivaceus (non Gray), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 21. 
sulcatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 20. 
Head and body very strongly depressed ; snout moderate, obtusely 
acuminate; loreal region concave. Lower eyelid with a large 
transparent disk. Nostril pierced behind the vertical of the suture 
between the rostral and the first labial; a postnasal; anterior 
loreal in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind 
the rostral; frontonasal as long as broad, or a little broader than 
long, in contact with or narrowly separated from the frontal; latter 
as long as 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 ; parietals in 
contact behind the latter shield; a pair of nuchals; subocular not 
reaching the lip, resting on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, or fifth and 
sixth, labials. Ear-opening oval, as large as the transparent palpe- 
bral disk, with two or three very small lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, 
nuchal, and lateral scales strongly quinquecarinate ; 34 to 38 scales 
round the middle of the body, dorsals largest. The hind limb reaches 
* Types examined. 
