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teeth; maxillary teeth conical. Eyelid immovable, transparent, 

 covering the eye; ear distinct or hidden. Nostril in the nasal; 

 supranasal present or absent. Limbs distinct. 



Distribution. South-Eastern Europe; Southern Asia; x^ustralia; 

 tropical and South-Africa. 



A single species. 



I. Ablepharus boutoni (Desjard.). 



Scincus houtonii^ Desjardins, Ann. Sc. Nat. XXII 1831, p. 298. 

 Ablepharus bontonii, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 346 (s. syn.). 

 Cryptoblepharns botitonii^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 96, pi. 3 fig. 5, 7, 8. 



Snout pointed, eye surrounded by granules; upper eyelid 

 consisting of three or four large scales, lower covering the 



Fig. 96. Ablepharus bontoni (Desj.). 



eye, transparent; ear-opening round, small, about half the 

 diameter of the eye-opening. Nostril in the nasal; no supra- 

 nasals; frontonasal as long as broad, in contact with the 

 rostral ; praefrontals in contact or slightly separated ; frontal 

 small, not longer than the frontonasal, in contact with the 

 two anterior supraoculars, in contact with the interparietal or 



