410 SCINCIDZ. 
or marbled with black; lower surfaces whitish, throat usually 
greenish. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 110 Fore limb .......- 12 
HOS iso a sos tere eae’ 11 Hind limb ...... .- 18 
Width of head da ead Tall vic waveaea als 60 
Body ............ 39 
Mauritius. 
a-b. Ad. Mauritius, Paris Museum. 
ce. Ad. Mauritius. 
d-f. Ad, Round Island. A. Newton, Esq. [Pk 
g-l. Ad. Round Island. Sir H. Barkly [P.]. 
2. Scelotes astrolabi, 
Amphiglossus astrolabi, Gray, Cat. p. 125. 
Amphiglossus astrolabi, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 608. 
Gongylus stumpfli, Boettg. Zool, Anz. 1882, p. 479. 
Snout obtuse; eye moderate; lower eyelid scaly; ear-opening 
transversely oval; supranasals forming a median suture; a post- 
nasal between the supranasal and the first labial; frontal longer 
than broad; no prefrontals; four supraoculars, first largest; no 
frontoparietals ; interparietal shorter and narrower than the frontal, 
narrower than the parietals; fourth upper labial entering the orbit. 
34 scales round the body. Limbs pentadactyle, very short, widely 
separated when adpressed; the fore limb, stretched forwards, 
reaches the ear. Tail a little longer than head and body. Uniform 
brown above, greyish white inferiorly. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 500 Fore limb ........ 36 
Head ss siwsienn ve es 36 Hind limb ........ 52 
Body acces eaves -. 190 
Madagascar. 
3. Scelotes polleni. 
Gongylus polleni, Grandid. Rev. et Mag. Zool. xxi. 1869, p. 840, 
Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin; eye 
moderate ; lower eyelid scaly ; ear-opening roundish ; supranasals 
forming a median suture; a postnasal between the supranasal and 
the first labial; frontal a little longer than the frontonasal, longer 
than broad; no prefrontals; four supraoculars, second largest; 
seven supraciliaries ; no frontoparietals ; interparietal a little longer 
than broad, shorter and narrower than the frontal, narrower than 
the parietals, its convex anterior border fitting in an emargination 
of the posterior border of the frontal; fourth upper labial entering 
