344 SCIKCIDiE. 



supraocular ; three supraoculars, first largest ; five supraciliaries ; 

 frontoparietals distinct, a littlo smaller than the interparietal ; 

 parictals forming a suture behind the inter])arietal ; two pairs of 

 nuchals ; ear completely hidden. 22 smooth scales round the 

 middle of the body : dorsals largest. A pair of enlarged pra^anals. 

 Tail thick, ending very obtusely, a little shorter than head and body. 

 Brownish white ; sides and extremity of tail interiorly blackish ; 

 back with lines of blackish dots along the series of scales. 



From snout to vent 75 millim., tail G7. 



Queensland. 



a. Ad. ? Gayndah. Museum GodeiFroy. 



b. Ilgr. Port Bowen. Museum Godeliroy, 



9. ABLEPHARUS. 



Ablepharus, Fitzing. Verh. Ges. Naturf. Fr. i. 1824, p. 297 ; Fiizing. 



A\ Classif. Rept. p. 2G ; Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 15G ; Wicgm. 



Herp. Mex. p. 11; Dum. ^- Bihr. v. p. 806; Gray, Cut. Liz. 



p. 63 ; Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Feiersb. vi. 1868, p. 5.53, and 



Bull. xii. p. 359. 

 Lerista, Bell, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 99 ; Wiegm. I. c. ; Dum. ^ 



Bibr. p. 823 ; Gray, I. c. p. 66. 

 Cryptoblepharus, Wiegm. I. c. ; Cocteau, Etudes sur les Scincoid. p. 1 ; 



Gray, I. c. p. 64. 

 Morethia, Gray, I. c. p. 65. 

 Menetia, Gray, I. c. 

 Miculia, Gray, I. c. -p. 66. 



? Blepharactisis, Halluio. F)-oc. Ac. Fhilad. 1860, p. 484. 

 Panaspis, Cope, Froc. Ac. Fhilad. 1868, p. 317. 

 Blepharosteres, Stuliczka, Froc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 74. 

 Phaueropis, Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1881, p. 2.36. 



Palatine and pterygoid bones in contact mcsially, the palatal notch 

 not extending forwards to between the centre of the eye ; pterygoids 

 toothless. Maxillary teeth conical. No movable eyelids, a trans- 

 parent disk covering the eye. Ear distinct or hidden. Nostril 

 pierced in the nasal ; supranasal present or absent. Limbs more 

 or less developed. 



Australia, South-western Asia, South-eastern Europe, Tropical 

 and South Africa : one species irregularly distributed over the hotter 

 parts of both hemispheres. 



Synoiisis of tlie Species. 

 I. Frontoparietals and interparietal united into a single shield. 



A. Fingers and toes five. 



1. Upper eyelid represented by 

 three or four larger scales ; 

 frontal not half the size of the 

 interparietal 1. houtonii, p, 346. 



