224 sciNCiD^. 



261. Chalcides ocellatus. 



Lucei'ta ocellata, ForsJi. Hist. Anim. p. 13. 



Seps (Gongj'lus) ocellatus, Blanf. Zuol. E. Fern. p. 30o ; Murr. ZouJ. 



Si ml, Y- •^•^"• 

 Chalcides ocellatus, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 400. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin ; eyes 

 moderate; ear-opening much larger tlian the nostril, subtriangular 

 or siibquadrangular. Nostril pierced just above the suture between 

 the rostral and the first labial : a postnasal, in contact with the first 

 and second labials ; supranasals distinct ; frontal longer than broad ; 

 usually the fiftli labial entering the orbit. Sides of belly rounded. 

 Scales smooth or feebly striated, 2S to 34 (to 40 in specimens from 

 ]VIorocco) round the middle of the body. Limbs short but well 

 developed and pentadactyle ; the length of the hind limb is usually 

 less than the distance from the end of the snout to the fore limb, 

 and enters 3g to 4| times in the length from snout to vent. Tail 

 shorter than head and body. Olive or brown above, witli l)lack 

 spots, each bearing a central white dot or longitudinal shaft ; 

 lower parts white. 



From snout to vent hh inches ; tail 4. 



Hah. North and North-east Africa, islands of the Mediterranean, 

 Syi'ia, Arabia, Pt-rsia. Ptecorded from Sind by Murray. 



262. Chalcides pentadactyliis. 



Spheuocephalus ? peutadactvlus, Beddome, Madras .Touni. Med. Sc. 

 1870, pi. i. 



The description and figure ])ublislied by Beddome, from a single 

 specimen preserved in the Madras Museum, indicate a Lizard 

 closely allied to the North-African, Arabian, and Syrian G. scpoicUs, 

 Audoinn, with which it is possibly identical. The original de- 

 scription is as follows, the names in square brackets being added by 

 me : — 



" Tlie anterior legs minute ajid fitting into a groove ; fingers 

 fi\e, the third slightly longer than the fourth, first and fifth very 

 smaU ; posterior legs well formed; toes five, the fourth longer than 

 the third, the fifth very small ; form slender, four and a quarter 

 inches long, as thick as a goose-quill, two thirds cylindrical, flat, 

 and laterally angled l:)eneat]i as far as the vent ; the body and tail 

 covered with small smooth lustrous hexagonal scales, with a median 

 row of broader subcaudals ; upper lip covering the mouth ; eyes 

 minute, surrounded liy small scales ; no external trace of ears ; 

 nostrils in small single shields let into the posterior side of the 

 rostral, with a small postnasal behind each, and two large shields 

 in the loreal region behind the postnasal and the eye ; rostral 

 square behind, a single pra4'rontal narrow and a i)ai-a]lelogram in 

 shape [the united supi\anasals] ; postfrontal [prajfrontal] single, 

 six-sided ; vertical [frontal] broader behind ; occipitals [parietals] 



