The Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 91 



Range outside Victoria. — Irregularly distributed over the 

 hotter parts of both hemispheres. 



Ablepharus lineo-ocellatus, Dum. and Bibr. 



Cryptoblepharus lineo-ocellatus., Gray, Cat., p. 65. 



Moretliia atiGnialus, Gray, he. 



Ablepharus lineo-ocellatus, Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 817; Strauch, 

 Mel. Biol. Ac, St. Petersb., vi., 1868, p. 569, and Bull, xii., 

 p. 371. 



Cryptoblepharus lineo-ocellatus, Gray, in Grey's Trav. Austr., ii., 

 p. 427. 



' Morethia anomalus, Gray, ZooL Ereb. and Terr. Kept., p. 4, 

 pi. v., fig. 1. 



Ablepharus anowalus, Strauch, I.e., pp. 570, 571. 



Morethia anoniala, Giinth, Zool. Ereb. and Terr. Kept., p. 10. 



Ablepharics (Morethia) a noma I us (adelaidensis), Peters, Mon. 

 Berl. Ac., 1874, p. 376. 



Description. — "Snout short, obtuse, rostral not projecting. 

 Eye entirely surrounded by a circle of granules. Rostral largely 

 in contact with the frontonasal, which is in contact with 

 the frontal ; latter shield nearly as long as, but narrower 

 than the interparietal, which is formed by fusion with the 

 frontoparietals ; four supraoculars, second and third largest, 

 first and second in contact with the fi'outal ; six supraciliaries, 

 third to fifth usually very large, sixth minute ; a pair of nuchals ; 

 four (or five) labials anterior to the subocular ; supranasals 

 sometimes present. Ear-opening rather large, oval, with one or 

 several projecting small lobules anteriorly. Scales subequal in 

 size, twenty-four to thirty round the middle of the body. Limbs 

 well developed, pentadactyle ; the hind-limb does not reach the 

 axilla ; digits obtusely keeled inferiorly. Tail longer than head 

 and body. Colour. — Olive or brownish above, black spotted, or 

 with light black-edged ocelli ; a more or less sti"ongly marked 

 blackish lateral band, edged below by a white black-edged streak 

 which extends from the eye or ear to the groin ; a white black- 

 edged spot or streak between the thigh and the tail ; lower 

 surfaces yellowish, or greenish-white. 



