308 SCINCIDE. 
fourth toe. Tail thick, shorter than head and body. Brown or 
rufous above, uniform, or each scale with a blackish dot or longitu- 
dinal streak, or with scattered pale round spots; sides usually 
darker, with whitish brown-edged ocelli; lower surfaces yellowish 
white, uniform or brown- dotted. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 156 Fore limb ........ 14 
TROA, 2isyasceis ie -eyecalecs 17 Hind limb........ 22 
Width of head .... 18 Tail (reproduced) .. 48 
Body .........06- 91 
Tropical and South Africa. 
a, Her. Natal. Sir A. Pe el (Type.) 
6, Ad. Mozambique. Prof. Peters[P.]. (As typical of 
Eumeces afer.) 
ce. Ad. Zambezi Exped. Sir J. Kirk (C.J. (Type of 
Mochlus punctatus.) : 
d. Ad.,dry. Zangomero in Khutu, Capt. Speke (P.]. 
E. Africa. 
e. Her. Lake Nyassa. J. B. Thelwall, Esq. [C.]. 
f. Ugr. Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk (C.]. 
g. Her. Coast of Zanzibar. 
h-i. Ad. E. Africa. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 
k. Ad. Lado, Soudan. Emin Bey [C.]. 
i. Her. Benguela. Prof. B. du Bocage [P.]}. 
m, Her. W. Africa, Mr. Fraser [C.]. 
110. Lygosoma bowringii. (Pirate XXIII. fig. 3.) 
Eumeces bowringii, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 91. 
Euprepes (Riopa) punctatostriatus, Peters, Jfon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 81. 
Body elongate, limbs rather short ; the distance between the end 
of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half in the 
distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 
eyelid scaly. Supranasals present, in contact behind the rostral * ; 
frontonasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture with 
the frontal; prefrontals small; frontal as long as frontoparietals 
and interparietal together, in contact with the first and second 
supraoculars ; four supracculars; seven supraciliaries, first and last 
largest ; frontoparietals distinct; interparietal distinct, smaller than 
frontoparietals ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; 
a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals; fifth 
upper labial largest and bordering the orbit. Ear-opening small, 
round. 28 scales round the middle of the body, subequal; dorsals 
indistinctly tricarinate. Marginal preanals a little enlarged. The 
adpressed limbs fail to meet; the hind limb equals about three 
fifths the distance between axilla and groin. Digits moderate, 
compressed; fourth toe a little longer than third; subdigital 
* The type of E. punctatostriatus differs only in having the extremity of the 
rostral in contact with the frontonasal. 
