208 SCINCIDA. 
millim, millim. 
Total length ...... 170 Fore limb ........ 22 
Head........ Seige, MAS, Hind limb........ 36 
Width of head .... 12 Tat. dnciets ce he ees 102 
Body 2 seas wieaiis 50 
Brava, East Africa. 
66. Mabuia acutilabris *. 
Euprepes acutilabris, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 19. 
damaranus (non Peters), Steindachn. Siteb, Ak. Wien, 1xii. i. 
1870, p. 338, pl. iii. figs. 1-3. 
Snout short, obtuse, much depressed, with deeply concave loreal 
region, sharp canthus rostralis, and angularly projecting upper 
labials. Lower eyelid with a very large transparent disk. Nostril 
on the upper surface of the snout, just above or in front of 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 forming a suture behind the rostral; 
frontonasal broader than long, usually in contact with the frontal ; 
latter longer than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in con- 
tact with the first, second, and third supraoculars; four supraoculars, 
second and third subequal; five supraciliaries, second longest; fronto- 
parietals distinct, as large as or a little larger than the interparietal ; 
parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; a pair of 
nuchals ; subocular not reaching the lip, in contact with the fifth 
and sixth upper labials. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the trans- 
parent palpebral disk, with three or four long lanceolate lobules 
anteriorly. Dorsal and nuchal scales strongly tricarinate, laterals 
sometimes bicarinate; 28 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, 
subequal. The hind limb reaches the shoulder or the ear. Toes 
very long; scales on the soles sharply keeled; subdigital lamelle 
sharply unicarinate. Tail not quite twice as long as head and body. 
Brownish or fulvous above, with transverse darker bars with light 
dots on the back, interrupted by a yellowish vertebral band; two 
light lateral bands, the lower commencing below the eye, passing 
through the ear, and extending to the groin; lower surfaces white. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 174 ' Fore limb........ 20 
GAGs ira yesiaoe sg acon eis 14 Hind limb........ 35 
Width of head .... 10 Tail. oisauwasvews 115 
Body seiare sonia ¢ 45 
South-west Africa. 
a. Ad. Angola. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 
b-c, Ad. Carangigo. Dr. Welwitsch PA 
d. Ad. - Benguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 
ef. Ad. & hgr. Hereroland. Berlin Museum (Ph. 
g-h. Ad. Damaraland. 
a, Yg. —?P 
* ‘Types examined. 
