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REPTILES. 



** Ear moderate. Eyelid circular. 



The Two-streaked Ablepharus. Ablephams bivittatus. 

 Scincus bivittatus, Menest. Cat. 64. A. Menestriesii, Dum. et Bib. 

 E. G. V. 811. 



Copper green, scales brown-edged, with 4 series of brown- 

 edged grey spots ; eyelid circular ; ears moderate, circular, even, 

 simple-edged ; limbs moderate, fore legs extending to the eye. 



Inhab. Talysche Mountains, Perimbal, Menestries. 



3. Cryptoblepharus, Cocteau, Weigmann. Ablephams, part, 



Dum. et Bib. 



Head pyramidical. Frontoparietal plate single. Nostrils la- 

 teral, in a single nasal ; supranasal none. Eyelid rudimentary, 

 circular. Ears moderate, open. Tongue flat, scaly, nicked at 

 the tip. Palate toothless. Body fusiform, scales smooth, or very 

 finely and indistinctly grooved. Legs 4. Toes 5-5, unequal, ra- 

 ther compressed. Tail roundish, tapering, acute. Preanal scgles 

 in 3 rows. 



* Eyelid complete, with a series of larger scales above. 



Tlie Pete. Cryptoblepharus Boutonii. Scincus plagiocepha- 

 lus, Peron, 3Ius. Par. S, Boutonii, Desjard. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii. 

 1831. 298. S. arenarius, and S. furcatus, Schlegel, Mus. Leyd. 

 S. aureus, Mm. Paris. Cryptoblepharis Peronii, Coct. Scincoi- 

 des, i. t. Mag. Zool. t. " Dum. et Bib. E. G. v. 812. C. 



Leschenaultii, Coct. Seine, t. Ablepharus poecilopleurus, Weigm. 

 N. Act. N. Cur. xv. 183, t. 8,/. 1. Gray, Ann N. H. ii. 335, and 

 Grey, Trav. Austr. ii. 426. Seba, Thes. ii. 4, t. 2,f. 9-10. Tiliqua 

 Buchanani, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 291. 



Olive or bronzed, brown-varied ; scales black-streaked ; eyelid 

 circular, scaly, with the three upper scales largest ; ears moderate, 

 suboval, open, simple-edged ; rostral plate very large, triangular ; 

 preanal plates 6 or 7, nearly equal. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Dark bronze green, with 3 or 4 streaks of 

 black dots. Isle of France. Presented by M. Bibron, of Mus. 

 Paris. 



b — d. Adult, in spirits. Brownish, with a bright yellowish streak 

 on each side. Timor. From the Leyden Museum. 



(I — m. Adult, in spirits. W. Australia. From Mr. Gould's col- 

 lection. 



;j — p_ Adult, in spirits. W. Australia. From Mr. Buchanan's 

 collection. 

 T. Buchanani, Gray, Ann. N. H, ii. 291. 



