404 SCINCIDE. 
Seps quadrilineatus, Metaxa, Mem. Zool. Med. p. 31. 
— concolor, Metaxa, I. e. p. 32. 
chalcides, Bonap. Faun. Ttal.; Gené, Syn. Rept. Sard. 
Gravenh. N. Acta Ac. Leop.- Carol, xxiii. 1851, i. p. 370, pl. en ; 
Strauch, Erp. Alg. p.45; De Betta, Faun. Ital., Rut An 14 p. 82, 
and Atti Ist. Venet. (7) i i. 1883, p. 122. 
—— chalcides, part., Dum. §& Bibr. v. p. 769; Schreib. Herp, Eur, 
p. 346; Camerano, "Mon, Saur. Ital. p. 91. 
Very closely allied to the preceding. Limbs weaker still, the hind 
one usually shorter than the distance between the ear and the fore 
limb, and contained fifteen to twenty-four times in the length from 
snout to vent; third toe shorter than second. Usually 24 scales 
round the body. Olive or bronzy above, uniform or with darker and 
lighter longitudinal streaks, which are constantly in even number. 
millim, nillim 
Total length ...... 393 Fore limb ........ 8 
Head visa eoer ew ze 17 Hind limb........ 12 
Width of head .... 12 Halk scsi ieeexecaugewé 200 
Bod y's os cei eye cis 176 
Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco. 
A. Upper surfaces uniform, or with a very indistinct darker lateral 
band. 
a, Ad, N, Africa. 
b. Her. —? 
B. A light dorso-lateral band, edged with dark brown. 
ce. Ad, Turin. Prof. Bonelli [P.]. 
d. Ad. Italy. J. J. Bianconi [P.]. 
e. Ad, Sicily. T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 
f. Ad. Sicily. 
g-h, Ad, & hgr. i 
C. Light olive above, with six black longitudinal streaks, the median 
pair sometimes broken up, the outer pair on each side close 
together. 
2. Ad, Algerian Sahara. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
k, Ad. Algeria, 
6. Chalcides guentheri, 
Seps monodactylus (non Daud.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 
p. 491; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880-81, p. 139; Tristram, 
Faun, Palest. pl. xvi. fig. 4. 
Limbs reduced to a minute conical rudiment, the length of the 
fore ones equalling about two scales, the hind ones one scale. 20 
scales round the body. In every other respect similar to C. tridac- 
tylus. Uniform olive above, lighter inferiorly. 
