426 TEIIDJE. 



the body ; tweuty-nine scales from parietals to base of tail. Prfe- 

 anal scales six. Five or six femoral pores on each side. Tail 

 moderately long, tapering to a fine point ; upper caudal scales 

 strongly keeled. Brown above, with a yellowish longitudinal band 

 on each side, beginning from the tip of the snout ; another on the 

 upper lip ; lower surfaces yellowish, grey-spotted. 



North-Eastern Colombia. 



2. Tretioscincus laevicauda. 



Tretioscincus lasvicaudus, Cope, Proc, Amer. Pliilos. Soc. xi. 1870, 

 p. 557. 



Scales large, those of both body and tail entirely smooth ; several 

 behind the occipital plates larger than the others. Limbs short. 

 Colour, a dark clear olive above, paler below ; a light green band 

 from the temporal region along the canthus rostralis to the end of 

 the muzzle, and another parallel along the upper lip ; no other 

 markings. Size about that of T. bifasciatus. 



"W". Nicaragua. 



34. MICRABLEPHARUS. 



Gymnopbthalmus, part., Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mew., Rept. p. 466. 

 Micrablepharus, Boettyer, Zeitschr.f. Katurw. Iviii. 1885, p. 217. 



Tongue arrow-headed. Head with large regular shields ; fronto- 

 nasal separating the nasals ; no praefrontals ; frontoparietals present; 

 Nostril pierced in the middle of a semidivided nasal. No eyelids. 

 Ear exposed. Limbs well developed ; inner finger absent. All tbe 

 scales roundish-hexagonal, imbricate, smooth, arranged quiucuncially. 

 No collar fold. Tail cylindrical. Males with femoral pores. 



Brazil, Paraguay. 



1. Micrablepharus maximiliani. 



Gynmoplitbalmus quadx-ilineatus {non Linn.), Wied, Beitr. Nat. 



Bras. i. p. 195, and Ahbild. 

 maximiliani, Beinh. 8f Lilfk. Vidensk. Meddel. 1861, p. 211, 



pi. V. tig. 6 ; Bocourt, I. c. p. 467, pi. xxii. H. fig. 5. 

 Micrablepharus glaucurus, Bcettg. I. c. p. 218. 



Habit of GymnopMlialmus quadrilineatus. Frontonasal very large ; 

 frontal small ; frontoparietals small ; parietals and interparietals 

 short, of equal length, latter pentagonal ; two supraoculars, anterior 

 largest and in contact with the frontonasal ; two supraciliaries, 

 anterior very large ; chin-shields, one anterior and three alternating 



