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round, tapering regularly. Distance from snout to fore-leg contained one and 

 one-half times in the distance from axilla to vent. Snout short, shorter than 

 the space between the eye and the ear. Lower eyelid scaly, transparent. Ros- 

 tral hexagonal, wider than high, truncate, in contact with the frontonasal. 

 Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no supranasal. Nasal quadrangular, in con- 

 tact with the first labial ; postnasal in contact with second labial ; loreal iu 

 contact with second and third labials. Labials seven, fifth and sixth below 

 the eye. Frontal one and one-half times as long as wide, broadly in contact 

 with the frontonasal and with the anterior two pairs of supraoculars ; prefron- 

 tals small; frontonasal broader than long, octagonal ; frontoparietals moderate, 

 little larger than the interparietal ; parietals large, meeting behind the inter- 

 parietal. Three to four pairs of nuchals, twice as wide as the shields behind 

 them. A large shield and a much smaller one at the outer side of each parie- 

 tal. Four supraorbitals, second widest. Five or six broad shields between the 

 eye and the ear. Seven or eight supraciliaries. Mental shield large, broad, in 

 contact with two labials and a submental. Anterior submental broader than 

 long, iu contact with five shields, followed on each side by four broad sub- 

 mentals, the anterior pair of which meet on the median line, the second pair 

 are separated by a single small scale, and the third pair are separated by three 

 scales. Earopening subelliptical, oblique, little smaller than the eye, with 

 several hardly noticeable lobules on the anterior border. Scales smooth, in 

 twenty-four rows around the body, dorsals larger and laterals little smaller 

 than the ventrals ; a pair of enlarged preanals. Below the tail the scales are 

 somewhat larger than those on the upper surfaces. Rostral, nasals, first labial 

 and mentals have in most cases the appearance of being thicker than the other 

 head scales or of having retained the slough. Digits weak, slightly compressed; 

 subdigital lamellae forming a low keel, nineteen under the fourth toe. 



Bronzed olive on the back, more or less lightly sprinkled with black spots 

 which become more numerous toward and on the tail and on the limbs. Belly 

 and lower side of tail uniform whitish. Scales of sides and lower surfaces of 

 head and throat with black spots, those of labials and submentals most intense. 

 Entire flanks closely spotted with small black spots; in cases the spots of sides 

 and back become longitudinal streaks. On some individuals the back is more 

 thickly covered with spots which are smaller forward and on the back of the 

 head, and each labial bears a white vertical bar in the middle, the black spots 

 being situated on the sutures and covering a portion of each scale. 



Differs from L. isolepis Boul. and L. elegantulum Pet. & Dor. in the smaller 

 number of scales. 



Barrier Reef, Australia ; G. B. R, Exp. : Queensland ; Mr. Olive. 



Ablepharus heteropus, sp. nov. 



Head medium ; snout short blunt, rounded, slighly projecting. Eye sur- 

 rounded by granules. Rostral slightly swollen, largely in contact with the 

 frontonasal ; frontal moderate, hexagonal, in contact with frontonasal, inter- 



