428 ; SCINCID®. 
7. Acontias plumbeus. 
Acontias plumbeus, Biancont, Spec. Zool. Mossamb., Rept. p. 35, 
pl. iii.; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 81, pl. xii. 
niger, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 619. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the larger size of the first 
supraocular, which considerably exceeds that of the two others to- 
gether, the very large size of the body, and the uniform black 
coloration. 
From snout to vent 400 millim., tail 60. 
Mozambique. 
a, Ad. Mozambique. Prof. Bianconi [P.]. 
; (One of the types.) 
8. Acontias lineatus. 
Acontias lineatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879, p. 774, pl. —. fig. 2. 
Snout subcuneiform, much depressed, its extremity strongly pro- 
jecting beyond the labial margin, flat inferiorly ; ear hidden ; rostral 
enormous, covering the greater part of the snout ; mental not reach- 
ing posteriorly beyond the rostral; frontonasal and frontal sub- 
equal in size, together shorter than the rostral; two supraoculars ; 
three supraciliaries, first very large; interparietal much narrower 
than the frontal, as broad as the parietal, as long as the frontal, 
nearly as broad as long; none of the labials entering the eye, which 
is minute. 14 scales round the middle of the body, those of the 
two vertebral series slightly broader than the others. Nolimbs. A 
single, very large preanal plate. Whitish, with black lines follow- 
ing the longitudinal series of scales. 
From snout to vent 150 millim., tail 33. 
South Africa. 
a, Ad. Karroo. Trustees of the S. African 
Museum [P.]. 
9. Acontias grayi. 
Typhline cuvierii, part., Gray, Cat. p. 128. 
Very closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs in the 
following points :—Frontal longer than prefrontal and than inter- 
parietal, which latter shield is a little broader than long. Pale 
brown, with a purplish band across the hinder part of each dorsal 
scale. 
From snout to vent 120 millim. 
Cape of Good Hope. 
a. Not good state. Cape. 
