Percival's Lance Skink

Continent: Africa
Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Republic of South Africa (N Transvaal), Kenya (vicinity of Voi), S Angola, NE Tanzania. percivali: restricted to Voi in south east Kenya and the eastern arc mountains of Tanzania and is separated from two other subspecies by marked physical boundaries such as the eastern arch mountains and Great Rift Valley, and considerable geographic distance (Spawls et al., 2001). occidentalis: in the Limpopo Province (South Africa), in Zimbabwe and west to Namibia and southern Angola;
Type locality: Okahandja (Namibia), designated by Mertens (1955); Type: Albany Museum 6064. tasmani: restricted to the eastern Cape in South Africa where it is often found sympatrically with A. m.orientalis (Branch, 1998).
Type locality: Foot of Mount Mbololo, Teita Mts., Kenya.

Acontias occidentalis, the western burrowing skink or savanna legless skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and South Africa.