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suture, though in the British Museum Catalogue description, based 
apparently on Betsileo specimens, the frontal is said to be in contact 
with the fronto-nasal. A half-grown example is uniformly olive-coloured 
above, with only the faintest indication of yellow spots over the neck. 
4148-51, 4266-67. 
M. boettgeri, Blgr. Some specimens from Analamazotra. 4175-78. 
M. gravenhorsti, D. and B. Taken on the plateau at Tananarive, 
at Analamazotra, near the coast at Tamatave, and in several localities in 
the south-west. 4152-71. 
M. elegans, Pet. Taken in the south-west, in the neighbourhood of 
Tulear, and on the Onilahy Kiver. 4172-74. 
Scelotes astrolabi, Pet. (Fig.)- One specimen was collected by 
M. Herschell-Chauvin in the forest of Folohv, in the neighbourhood of, 
Tamatave. The head scaling of this skink, which we presume is S. astrolabi , 
is somewhat remarkable, and we intend therefore giving a description of 
the chief features of the same. 
Fig. Scelotes astrolabi , Pet. ; showing apparent 
abnormality of head-scaling. 
The supra-nasals, which are small, form a fairly short median suture. 
The nostril is situated between the supra-nasal, the rostral, the first labial, 
and a long postnasal shield ; the postnasal shield abuts on the supra-nasal, 
a large fronto-nasal, the first supraciliary, the preocular, and the first,, 
second, and a small part of the third labial. Sutures defining the presence 
of loreals are entirely absent. This condition is the same on both sides 
of the head. 
The frontal shield is long, slightly exceeding in length the distance 
from the distal extremity of the rostral to the posterior end of the fronto- 
nasal. 
There are thirty-four scales round the centre of the body. 4187. 
Sc. melanopleura, Gunther. Two specimens from Analamazotra ; 
they both have the normal number of scales round the body, namely, 
twenty-four. 4185-86. 
Sc. igneocaudatus, Grandid. A single individual from Andranolaho. 
4184. 
Sepsina x\ielanura, Gunth. Two specimens from Analamazotra, 
which have twenty-eight longitudinal series of scales on the body ; two 
others, presumably juvenile, with a series of twenty-six scales, from 
Tamatave (Herschell-Chauvin). 4188-90, 4264. 
