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two Umfolcsi Rivers). It occurs also in the Karroo, the South African 
Museum having specimens from Graaff-Reinet, Hanover District, Steyns- 
burg, Beaufort West, and a solitary record from British Namaqualand. 
The Albany Museum has this species from Jansen ville and from Helpmakaar, 
near Ladysmith. 
Pachydactylus ocellatus Cuv. — In South Africa this species seems to 
be concentrated in south-west Cape Province, though the British Museum 
Catalogue has records from Benguella (it was taken also by Dr. Ansorge 
in Angola), and Ascension Island, and it has been taken in Damaraland 
by Wahlberg. The Cape Province records are Matjesfontein and Malmes- 
bury (Roux), and Cape Division, Touws River, Worcester, Robertson, 
Swellendam, Bredasdorp, Prince Albert Poort, and Calvinia (South African 
Museum.) 
Pachydactylus punctatus Pet. — Described from Mozambique. We have 
a specimen from Selati (Zoutpansberg District). 
9. Colopus wahlberyi Pet. — Only known from Damaraland. 
10. Rhoptropus afer Pet. — Recorded from South Angola, Hereroland, 
and Damaraland. 
Rhoptropus ocellatus Boul. — Described from Capetown, and recorded 
from Little Namaqualand (Roux). 
Rhoptropus braconnieri Thom. — Only known from Lake N’gami. 
11. Elasmodactylus namaquensis Sclat. — Described from British Nama- 
qualand. 
12. PalmatogecJco rangei Anders. — Described from Luderitzbucht, 
German South-West Africa (Jahrb. Nassau, ver. Nat., Wiesbaden, 1908). 
SCINCH) AE. 
Mabuia. 
1. Scales on the soles of the feet not * spinose ; suboculars not or 
scarcely narrowed inferiorly. 2. 
Scales on the soles of feet sharply keeled and spinose ; the subdigital 
lamellae strongly keeled. 7. 
2. A single subocular, more or less enlarged. 4. 
Two labials (five and six) of about equal size may be termed sub- 
oculars. 3. 
3. Subdigital lamellae smooth ; dorsals tricarinate ; forty-two to 
forty-six scales round the body. Olive-brown above, with small darker 
and lighter spots; a more or less distinct lighter dorso-lateral band, and 
a black white-edged spot in the axilla. M. stangeri Gray. 
Subdigital lamellae smooth ; dorsals, five to seven carinate ; thirty 
scales round the body ; fronto-nasal separated from the frontal. Olive- 
above, a light lateral streak extending from upper lip to groin, edged above 
by a black band, and below by a black line. M. depressa Pet. 
4. Parietals forming a suture * behind the interparietal. 5. 
Parietals completely separated by the interparietal. 6. 
This character not absolutely constant. 
