KEPTILIA. 285 



narrow, triangular. Nostrils perforated in the single nasal scute, 

 at the apex of snout. Tongue with apex bifid. Scales smooth.) 



Sp. Ophwphthalmus Burton ii, Lialis Burtonii Gray, Proceed, of the Zool. 

 &'oc. 1834, p. 134; New Holland. 



OpMopsis FiTZ., Lerista Bell. Feet four, anterior diclacty- 

 lous, very short, posterior tridactylous. Eyes destitute of eyelids, 

 covered by a transparent capsule. Body slender. Pores in front 

 of vent none. 



Sp. Ophiopsls lineata, Lerista Uneata Bell, Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. 1833, 

 p. 99 ; New Holland. This species is unknown to me. 



Gi/mnojyJitJialmus MEim. Feet four, anterior tetradactylous, 

 posterior pentadactylous. Eyelids none ; transparent capsule over 

 eyes. 



Sp. Gymnophthalmus qitadrilineatus Merr., Lacerta quadrilineata L., 

 Maxim. A hh. zur Naturgesch. Bras. Lief. xiii. (Bept. Tab. XVII. fig. 2) ; a 

 small species from South America. 



C^-yptohlepharus WiEOMANN, Ahlepharus FiTZ. Feet four, 

 pentadactylous. Eyes with a circular or lunate rudiment of eye- 

 lids, further covered by a transparent capsule. 



Sp. Cryptdblepharus pannonicus nob., Ahlepharxts jxmnonicus FiTZ., 

 Verhandl. der Gescllsch. der naturforsch. Freunde zu Berlin, i. 1829, Taf. 

 XjV. Ahlepharus Kitaihelii Geavenhorst, Nov. Act. Acad, Leop. Car. xxir, 

 I, 185 1, Tab. 37; Hungary; in this species the limbs are shorter than iu 

 the others of this small genus, of which one is remarkable on account of 

 its extensive geographic distribution, namely Ablepharus Peronii DUM., 

 BiBR., Ahlepharus po2cilopleurus Wiegmann, Nov. Act. nat. Curios, xvii. 

 1835, Tab. 8, fig. r, Ahlepharus Leschenault Cocteau, Guer. Magas. de 

 Zool. 1832, RepJ. PI. I ; it occurs in the Morea, in Africa on the coast 

 of Mozambique, at the Sunda Lslands, at New Holland, and the Sandwich 

 Islands. 



Bqyes Mere. (Species from gen. Bijjes Lac, Cuv.), SceJofes 

 FiTZ. Rudiments of hind feet only. Eyes provided with mobile 

 eyelids. Body elongate, anguineous. 



a) Rudiments of hind feet adactylous, clawless, styliform. 



Ophiodes Wagl., Pygodactylus Fitz. 



Sp. Bipes striatus nob., Pygopus cariococca Spix, a small species from BrasU 

 and Guiana. 



Fi-cftpeditus Dum., Bibr., Soridia Gray. 



