34. MICKABLEPHARtrS. 35. GY.MNOPHTHALMUS. 427 



pairs forming a suturo. Sixteen scales round the body. Four or 

 fife femoral pores on each side. Scales on the upper part of the 

 posterior two thirds of the tail keeled. Yellowish brown above ; a 

 broad lateral dark brown band, commencing from the snout and 

 passing through the eye and the fore limb, bordered above and below 

 by a whitish streak ; lower surfaces yellowish, throat and chin 

 brown-dotted; tail blue. 



millim. 



From end of snout to fore limb 13 



From end of snout to vent 27 



Tail 67 



Brazil ; Paraguay. 



35. GYMNOPHTHALMUS. 



Gymnophthalmus, 3Ierrem, Tent. Syst. Aniph. p. 74; Wayler, Syst. 



Amph. p. 157 ; Wieym. Herp. Mc.r. p. 11 ; Dum. 8f Bibr. v. p. 819; 



Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 63 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rcpt. p. 460. 

 Epaphelus, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii, 1670, p. 115. 



Tongue moderately elongate, arrow-headed. Teeth conical. Head 

 with large regular shields ; frontonasal separating the nasals ; 

 prsefrontals present ; no frontoparietals ; nostril pierced in the 

 middle of a single nasal. No eyelids. Ear exposed. Limbs well 

 developed ; inner finger absent All the scales roundish-hexagonal, 

 imbricate, smooth or feebly keeled, arranged quincuncially. No 

 collar fold. Tail cylindrical. Males with, females without, femoral 

 pores. 



Tropical America. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Dorsal scales perfectly smooth. 



15 scales round the body 1. quadrilineatus, p. 427. 



13 scales round the body 2. sumichrasti, p. 428. 



II. Dorsal scales keeled. 



15 scales round the body 3. luetTccnii, p. 429. 



17 scales round the body 4. i)ldi, p. 429. 



1. Gymnophthalmus qiiadrilineatus. 



Gymnophthalmus lineata, Gray, Cat. p. 63. 

 Lacerta qiiadrilineata, Linn. S. K. i. p. o71. 

 Spps liucatus, Laiir. 8yn. licpt. p. 00. 

 Seincus quadrilincatus, Daud. liept. iv. p. 266. 

 Gymnophtlialinus quadrirmeatus, Merr. Tent. p. 74; Graven/i. Nova 



Acta. Ac. Leop.-Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. p. .'i54; Bocourt, I. c. p. 408, 



pi. xxii. H. tig. 4. 



incrreniii, O'ct. Et. Seine. 



quadrilineatus, part., Dum. 4' Bibr. v. p. 820. 



