EAST AFRICAN LIZARDS. 



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scales and a tail fragment, probably belonging to this species, 

 were taken from the stomachs of two Skinks \Lygosoma sunde- 

 valli). Three were found in the stomach of a snake {Chlorophis 

 Qieglectus), Nairobi (IT.vii. 18). 



ScELOTES EGGELi (Tornier). 



Torn. Zool. Anz. xxv. 1902, p. 700. 



Eight specimens of this Skink which was described by Tornier 

 from [Jsambara, G.E.A., were taken at Lumbo in Jnly and Angnst 

 1918. The coloration during life as noted at the time was as 

 follows : — "Copper-coloured above, becoming plumlieous on tail ; 

 dirty bluish white Ijelow ; the two sepai-ated by a very dark 

 brown or blackish lateral band, well defined above but merging 

 into the bluish white below. Throat sometimes spotted," 



Largest male measured 3| inches (63-32 mm,, tail short and 

 regenerated), largest female 4^ inches (67-38 mm,, also regene- 

 rated). Smaller specimens with uninjured tails show that the 

 tail should equal the length of head and bo<ly. 



In ovaries of two females taken at Lumbo in July 1918 were 

 each two eggs measuring 7x5 mm. 



Text-figure 1. 



Scolecoseps houlengeri. 



ScoLECOSEPS, gen. nov. 



Among the lizards collected at Lumbo were seven specimens 

 of a limbless burrowing Skink referable to no known genus. 



Generic descrijytion. Characters as in Melanoseps, but nostril 

 piei-ced in the ver}'' large rostral, with whose posteiior border it is 

 connected by a horizontal cleft, as in Acoiitias. 



Locality. South East Africa. 



ScOLECOSEPS EOULEXGERI, Sp. n. (Text-tig. 1.) 



Specific diagnosis. Snout conical, strongly projecting, length 

 of the rostral a little more than one-fifth that of the head. 

 Internasals 'in contact, sometimes very narrowly, separating 

 rostral from fronto-nasal, which is twice as broad as long. Frontal 

 equal to or but little larger than fronto-nasal. Interparietal 



