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jiarietal, prefrontals, and two anterior supraoculars. Prefrontals about half as 

 large as the frontal, not in contact. Frontoparietal large, much larger than the 

 frontal. Interparietal distinct, small, hardly as large as a prefrontal. Four 

 supraoculars, anterior smallest, second largest. Labials six, fourth long and 

 below the orbit. Parietals broad, in contact behind the interparietal. Two 

 pairs of broad nuchals. Earopening small, nearly hidden by sharp lobules 

 from the upper and the lower edges. Scales smooth, in twenty-four rows 

 around the body, scales of flank smallest. Preanals small. Limbs short, ante- 

 rior tetradactyl, posterior pentadactyl, not meeting when adpressed. Digits 

 short, outer on the hind foot very short. Tail longer than head and body. 



Brownish olive above, lighter toward tlie bell}', with small spots of brown 

 below the hinder part of the abdomen, under the tail, on the limbs, along the 

 lower edges of the flanks, and on the lips and the sides of the throat ; belly, 

 throat, and lower surface of tail white. 



Near A. Greyi Gray, of Western and Southern Australia. 



Great Barrier Reef, Queensland ; G. B. R. Exp. 



Ablepharus eximius Garm. 



Cryptoblepharus eximius GiR. 



Specimens captured by Dr. Wood worth at Nai Robu, Niue Lagoon, and 

 Moala Island, Fijis, are of a very lustrous dark brown, with black flaiiks, and 

 dark olive on the lower surfaces ; the light streak above the eye is faint 

 and extends but little farther back on the flank than the almost obsolete 

 line below the eye. The mental shield alone of the lower surface is white. 



Another locality is represented by a type which agrees with the preceding 

 from the Fijis except in having the light color of the mental shield carried 

 backward to about the middle of the abdomen. It was taken by Dr. Mayer in 

 the neighborhood of Cooktown. 



Ablepharus virgatus, sp. nov. 



Form and size like those of A. lineo-ocellatus D. B. ov A. tceniopleitrus Pet. ; 

 tail as long as head and body. Head medium ; snout short, blunt, rostral 

 shield not projecting. Eye incompletely surrounded by granules. Rostral 

 largely in contact with frontonasal, which is widely separated from the frontal. 

 Frontal less than half as large as the frontonasal, in contact with the inter- 

 parietal by a narrow suture. Interparietal three or more times the size of the 

 frontal, fused with frontoparietals. Four supraorbitals, second largest and in 

 contact with frontal and frontoparietal. Four supraciliaries, anterior largest, 

 elongate. A pair of very broad nuchals followed by other pairs, not quite so 

 broad, the widths of which gradually decrease to the neck. Four labials ante- 

 rior to the subocular. Earopening small, hardly half the size of the pupil, 



