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age. First, the fully adult auimal as described above. Next, tbe inter- 

 mediate age wliicli is somewhat similar, but in which the contrasts of 

 the colors are stronger, the light tints of the back being lighter, more 

 brassy, and the browns darker, nearly blackish; in this stage the dark 

 spot on the parietals is very dark, each continued backward down the 

 back in a dark longitudinal line which occupies the margins of the first 

 and second scale rows on each side of the median line; with increasing 

 age these two lines disappear in the direction from the tail toward the 

 head; in this stage the supraoculars are also marked with dark irregu- 

 lar blotches, the underside, except throat, and the tail is decidedly 

 bluish. 



The third stage is that of the young represented in our series by No. 

 23517, U.S.N.M., from Molokai; in this the dorsal dark stripes are 

 much wider and better defined, occupying more than one-half of the 

 two scale rows; the spot on the parietal has a pale center; the lateral, 

 blackish stripe extends less down on the sides but encroaches more on 

 the dorsal space, the bronze color of the hitter being reduced to a nar- 

 row lateral light stripe which extends anteriorly to the supraoculars; 

 the entire median line from the tip of the snout to the root of the tail 

 is occupied by a sharply defined whitish (in alcohol) stripe bordered on 

 each side by the black lateral stripe; underside whitish; tail lighter 

 blue, especially underneath. 



List of specimens of Emoia cyanura. 



ABLEPHARUS' Fitzinger. 



(Fig. 13.) 



1824. — Ablepharus FiTZiNGKR, Verhandl. Ges. Natnif. Fr. rterlin, I (p. 297) (type, 



A. paiinonicus Fitzinger). 

 1834. — Cryptohlephanis Wiegmann, Herpet. Mex., p. 12 (type, A.pwcilopleiirus). 



Eyelids rudimentary, not movable. 



The genus as here understood is represented all over the warmer 

 portions of the globe by the type of the subgenus CryptoMepliarus, 

 which it would possibly have been better to accord generic rank. Not 

 having access at i^resent to the type species of Ablejpharns, I have left 

 the matter as presented by Boulenger, 



'From ex, without; and fdXe'cpafJov, eyelid. 



