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Ambon; Waigeu!; New Guinea (Jobi, Mafoor, Yule Island, 

 Sorong, Ramoi, Humboldt Bay!, Manikion river!, Merauke!, 

 Fly river, Fife Bay, Hula, Aroma, Bara Bara). — Pelew Islands ; 

 Murray Island, Islands of Torres Straits; W. Australia; Adelaide; 

 Tasmania; New Caledonia; Loyalty Islands; New Hebrides; 

 Samoa; Society and Fiji Islands; Central and S. Africa. 



d. riitilus Ptrs. 



Ablepharus rutilus^ Peters, Sitz. Ges. Naturf. Freunde 1879, p. 37. 



20 scales round the body; rest like the preceding one. 

 New Guinea (Fly river!, Aroma!). 



e. quinquetaeniatns Gthr. 



Ablepharus qui7iquetaeniatus^ Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 296. 

 Ablepharus himtoni var. Keiensls^ Roux, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. XXXIII 1910, 

 p. 240, Taf. XIII fig. 3. 



24 scales round the body (young ones 22); fifth upper labial 

 below the eye. Black above, with five very distinct whitish or 

 greenish longitudinal lines, a median one from the frontal to 

 the base of the tail, two latero-dorsals, beginning at the 

 supraciliary region, continued along the sides of the tail as 

 zigzag lines or series of spots; the outer ones narrowest, from 

 the subocular, through the ear, along the flanks to the hind 

 limbs. Limbs light-spotted. Lower parts greenish. 



Sumba!; Ambon; Ceram; Kei Islands!. — W. Africa. 



f. furcata M. Web. 



Ablepharus botitoni var. furcata^ M. Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Reise N. O. Ind. I 



1890/91 p. 174. 

 Cryptoblepharus boutonii baUnensis^ Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXIV 191 1, 



p. 18; Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 96, pi. 3 fig. 8. 



24 or 26 scales round the body; fifth upper labial below 

 the eye. Black above, with four longitudinal greenish bands 

 on the back, of which the two median ones fuse between 

 the fore limbs and the ear extending to the rostral; the 

 latero-dorsal bands begin at the nostril and extend, above the 

 eye, to the tail ; on each side a light lateral band from the 

 labials, through the ear-opening to the hind limb; flanks 

 blackish. Limbs blackish-brown, light-spotted; tail dark, with 

 two longitudinal greenish streaks. Lower parts greenish. 



