Notomabuya frenata (Cope, 1862) is a species of the family Mabuyidae. It presents golden reflections in the head and a brownish-black lateral band with irregular borders that extends from the snout to the groin. Individuals of this species also present fused frontoparietals, four supraoculars (some specimens may have three or five) and may reach up to 91mm in SVL (Vrcibradic and Rocha, 2011; Hedges and Conn, 2012; Cope, 1862).