144 SCINCIDA. 
than second. 20 scales round the body. Olive-green, paler 
beneath, scales dotted with black at the base. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 105 From snout to vent 52 
From snout to fore Fore limb........ 3 
ViTAD, = sei die ceo 10 Hind limb ...... 9 
Kaffraria. 
9. Scelotes bipes. 
Scelotes bipes, Gray, Cat. p. 128. 
Anguis bipes, Linn. S. N. i. p. 890. 
Lacerta bipes, Gel. S. N. i. p. 1079. 
Chamesaura bipes, part., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 218, 
Seps schneiderii, Daud. Rept. iv. p. 348. 
gronovii, part., Daud. J. c. p. 354. 
Bipes penne Merr. Tent. p. 76, and Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Amph. iii. 
. 1138, pl. x. 
P Ty eodectylae gronovii, Merr. 1. c. p. 77. . 
Seps sexlineatus, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Philad. iv. 1824, p. 284, 
pl. xviii. fig. 2. 
Scelotes anguineus, Fitzing. N. Classif. Rept. p. 53. 
linnei, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 785; Gravenh, N. Acta Ae. 
Leop.- Carol, xxiii. 1851, i. p. 376, pl. xiii. 
Snout subcuneiform and projecting; rostral very large; eye 
small; lower eyelid transparent; ear-opening minute; supranasals 
forming a median suture, sometimes fused into a single shield, in 
contact with the first labial; frontal scarcely longer than the fronto- 
nasal, broader than long; no preefrontals ; three supraoculars, first 
largest ; four supraciliaries; interparietal the largest head-shield, 
broader than the frontal, its anterior border concave; parietals 
narrow, band-like; third upper labial entering the orbit. 18 scales 
round the middle of the body. Fore limbs absent ; hind limbs very 
small, with two minute clawed digits. Tail shorter than the body. 
Pale brownish above, each scale darker in the centre; a dark brown 
streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye, continued 
along the side of the body as two lines of brown dots. 
moillim. millim. 
From snout to vent.. 82 Hind limb........ 55 
Meat as djte ae-cekee Shave te zy 68 
South Africa, 
a-f,g. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. 
10. Scelotes guentheri. (Prare XXIV. fig. 3.) 
Herpetosaura inornata, part., Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 
1878, p. 147. 
Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin; eye 
