306 SCINCIDE. 
with darker and scantily with lighter; lower surfaces yellowish 
white. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 77 Fore limb........ 12 
FUCA: es an ouce es aaa 11 Hind limb ...... 18 
Body: 2356 sea ete ae 39 
Brava, East Africa. _ 
107. Lygosoma modestum. (Prare XXIII. fig. 2.) 
Sepacontias modestus, Giinth. Ann. § May. N. H. (5) vi. 1880, p. 285. 
Body much elongate, subcylindrical; limbs weak; the distance 
between the end of the snout and the fore limb is contained twice 
and one third to twice and one half in the distance between axilla 
and groin. Lower eyelid scaly. Snout short, much depressed, 
rounded: no canthus rostralis. Nasal large, forming a suture with 
its fellow behind the rostral; no supranasal, but a suture extends 
from the nostril to the loreal; frontonasal much broader than long, 
forming a broad suture with the frontal; prefrontals small, widely 
separated ; frontal as long as frontoparietals and parietals together, 
in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; 
six or seven supraciliaries, first and last largest ; frontoparietals 
and interparietal distinct, subequal, or interparietal smallest ; no 
nuchals; fourth and fifth labials below the eye, fourth largest. 
Ear-opening very small, oval, oblique. 26 scales round the middle 
of the body, smooth, equal. Prwanals not enlarged. The fore 
limb, when stretched forwards, hardly reaches the ear; the length 
of the hind limb is contained twice and two thirds to three times 
in the distatice between axilla and groin. Digits short, compressed ; 
fourth toe considerably longer than third; subdigital lamelle feebly 
unicarinate, 12 or 13 under the fourth toe. Tail thick, slightly longer 
than head and body. Brown above; lateral scales with a central 
whitish spot or shaft; lower surfaces yellowish white, tail brown- 
dotted. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail in- Body vs verses 4s 2 42) 
ured ices gee es 115 Fore limb........ 11 
Head. calvin ceo 13 Hind limb ...... 17 
Width of head .... 9 
East Africa. 
a-c. Ad. & hgr. Mpwapwa, 200 miles in H. W. Bates, Esq. [C.]. 
interior of E. Africa. - (Types.) 
108. Lygosoma guineense. 
Euprepes [Bienes guineensis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879, p. 778, 
pl. —. fig. 1. 
Body elongate, limbs moderate. Lower eyelid scaly. Supra- 
