Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775).

Length up to 120 mm. A medium-sized skink with moderately developed limbs and an elongated cylindrical body. The dorsal scales are smooth and the color varies from light yellowish-olive to yellowish-brown with irregular bands of black and white ocelli. The Eyed Skink lives in a variety of habitats from sandy deserts to the banks of irrigation canals. It is mainly crepuscular or nocturnal and is semi-fossorial, spending much of its time under dead vegetation or sand. It comes to the surface to hunt for its food of snails, spiders, ants, termites, and small lizards and, occasionally, to drink. It can ‘sand-swim’ very rapidly to escape from danger. In Egypt, it is ubiquitous and common throughout semi-desert areas, the Mediterranean Coastal Deserts, Sinai, and the Nile Valley and Delta.