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An individual of this genus answering to the colour description of 
C. subtessellatus , Smith was seen at Qnibis, but unfortunately was not 
procured. We are of opinion that subtessellatus is merely a variety of 
tri vittatus, after an examination of a specimen of the former in the 
Capetown Museum. 
Family SCINCIDAE. 
Genus Majbuia, Fitzing. 
Bouleng., B. M. Cat., Ill, p. 150. 
M. trivittata ,’ Cuv. 
M. trivittata, Bouleng., 1. c. p. 195. 
M. gruetzneri , Roux, nec Peters, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 1907, p. 431. 
M. lialaharica , Werner, Bept. Amph. Schultzes Reise, p. 350, taf. VIII, fig. 11. 
M. varia , Werner, 1. c. taf. A 7 1 1 1 , fig. 12. 
2 examples : 3283, Kraikluft, at 6000 feet, on the top of a mountain ; 
3285, a juvenile, at Nakeis (Klein Karas). 
M. occidentalism Pet. 
Bouleng., 1. c. p. 196 : Werner, 1. c. p. 79 : Hewitt and Power, Trans. R. S. S. A. Ill, 1913, 
p. 158. 
6 examples : 3275-3279 in the dry river-bed at Wasserfall : 3280, a 
juvenile, in the sandy plains at the foot of the Little Karas Mountains, 
between Groendoorn and Wasserfall. 
Lengths of three specimens, 3279, 87 + 150 mm. : 3277, 91 + 126 mm. : 
3275, 98 + 101 mm. 
This species was found in burrows under the bushes which grow in 
the sandy bed of the river, the same burrows often being occupied by 
scorpions ( Opisthoplithalmus and Parctbuthus'). 
It is unusual to find both occidentalis and trivittata occurring in such 
close proximity to each other ; on the other hand it was noticed that 
whereas the former preferred sandy soil, the latter sought rocky and 
stony ground for its retreat. 
M. varia , Pet. 
Bouleng., 1. c. p. 202, and Ann. S. A. Mus. V, 1910, p. 485. 
11 examples from various places. Localities : 3284, 3291, 3292, 
Kraikluft, at 5100 feet : 3286, Nakeis (Klein Karas) : 3287, Groendoorn : 
3288, 3289, Liideritzbucht : 3290, 3293-3295, Narudas Slid. 
Our specimens differ somewhat from those known to us from the 
Transvaal and the eastern parts of South Africa, but agree with the form 
which was referred to by Mr. Boulenger (Annals S. A. Museum) as 
M. hitdebrandti : through the courtesy of the Director of the South 
African Museum, Dr. Peringuey, we have been able to make a careful 
examination of the actual specimens upon which that determination was 
made. 
Mr. Boulenger endeavours in his key to separate this form from 
M. varia through the relative proportions of the hind limb and the body. 
It it true that the Karasberg form does in the main differ from the 
Transvaal form in this respect, though we have specimens from the 
Zoutpansberg District which on this character alone might be referred to 
either species. Further, in examples of M. varia from the Karroo we 
meet with intermediate conditions. 
At the same time we can point to another differentiating character 
probably of much greater importance, namely that of the ear-lobules. 
