The scincid genus Scelotes Fitzinger, 1826 is a monophyletic group (Whiting et al. 2003; Bauer et al. 2003) comprising 21 species of attenuate surface or sub-surface active lizards endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Diversity is greatest in South Africa, with 18 species, mostly in the northeast, with only one species, S. capensis A. Smith, 1849, recorded from Namibia. In verifying the identity of Namibian squamates in the collection of the South African Museum (SAM) (Iziko Museums), a specimen catalogued as SAM ZR-015918 from Aus (2616CA, no explicit coordinates recorded), Karas Region, Namibia and listed in the SAM database as "Scelotes bipes" was examined.