275 



Bali; Flores!; Lomblem ! ; Ombaai (Alor); Damma. 

 Type-specimens examined in the Amsterdam Museum. 



g. cursor Barbour. * 



Cryptoblephariis boittonii citrsor^ Bavbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXIV 191 1, 

 p. 18; Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 96, pi. 3 fig. 5. 



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

 the eye. Pale greenish olive above, with a narrow dark line 

 not covering the vertebral series of scales or only covering 

 the outer borders on each side, the two meeting at the base 

 of the tail and disappearing there. A silvery white lateral band, 

 beginning above the eye and continued to the base of the 

 tail; this band bordered at the outer side by another black 

 line, white-spotted, from behind the eye to the sides of the 

 tail, where it breaks up into spots and soon disappears ; flanks 

 light with a few small dark spots. Lower parts silvery-white. 

 Limbs dark-spotted; tail light olive-green, brownish-green 

 towards the tip. 



Lombok; Paternoster Islands!. 



5. Tropidophorus Dum. & Bibr. 

 (DuM. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. V p. 554, 1839). 



Palatines and pterygoids in contact in the middle of the 

 palate, which has no teeth. Teeth conical. Eyelids distinct, scaly; 

 tympanum distinct, superficial. Nostril in the nasal; no supra- 

 nasals; praefrontals well developed; frontoparietal single or 

 double; interparietal distinct. Limbs strong, pentadactyle; digits 

 slightly compressed, with transverse lamellae below. 



Distribution. S. China; Indo-China; Philippines; Borneo; 

 Celebes. 



Key to the I n do-Australian species. 



A. Frontonasal single; one large praeanal scale ; ventral 

 scales smooth. 

 I. Dorsal scales smooth. 



a. 30 scales round the body i. T. beccarii p. 276. 



b. 34 scales round the body 2. T. mocquardi p. 276. 



II. Dorsal scales keeled. 



I. Dorsal scales with one keel. 



a. 32 scales round the body 3. T. brookei p. 277. 



b. 34 scales round the body 4. T. viicropus p. 277. 



