346 SCTNCIDiE. 



1. Ablepharus boutonii. 



Crj^toblepharus boutoiiii, Gray, Cat. p. 64. 

 Scincus boutonii, Dcsjard. Ann. Sc. Nat. xxii. 1831, p. 298. 

 Ablepharis lesclienault, Cucteuu, May. de Zool. 1832, Rtpt. pi. i. 

 Ablepharus precilopleurus, JVieym. N. Acta Ac. Leop.- Carol, xvii. 



1835, i. p. 202, pi. viii. fiir. 1 ; Gilnth. Proc. Zool. Soe. 1874, 



p. 290. 

 Cryptoblepliaris peronii, Cocteau, Et. Seine, p. 1. 



lesclieuaultii, Coct. I. c. 



Cryptoblepharus pcecilopleunis;, Gray, Ann, N. II. ii. 1830, p. 335, 



and Zoul. Erebus ^" Terror, Rept. pi. v. iig. 2, 

 Tiliqua buchanani, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. p. 291. 

 Ablepharus peronii. Dam. c^- Bibr. v. p. 813 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 



1854, p. 019; Bavay, Cat. Rept. N. Caled. p. 31. 

 Cr3^toblepliai'us eximius, Glrard, P-oc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 195, 



and U.S. Explor. E.iped., Herp. p. 222, pi. xxvi. figs. 25-32. 



plagiocephalus, Girard, If. S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 220, 



pi. xxvi. figs. 17-24. 



? Ablepharus nigropuuctatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1800, p. 487. 

 Ablepharus boutonii, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Petersb. \i. 1868, 



p. 566, and Bidl. xii. p. 368 ; Gilnth. I. c. ; Peters ^- Doria, Ann. 



Mils. Geneva, xiii. 1878, p. 339 ; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 77.' 



quinquetseniatus, Gilnth. I. c. 



rutilus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Freimde, 1879, p. 37. 



(Cryptoblepharus) boutonii, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. 



p. 463, pi. xxii. H. fig. 1. 



( ) leschenaultii, Bocourt, I. c, 



( ) peronii, Bocourt, I. c. 



boutoni, var. cognatus, Boetty. Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 359, and 



Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1881, p. 454, pi. ii. tig. 4. 



Snout pointed, rostral not projecting. Eye entirely surrounded 

 by a circle of granules ; upper eyelid represented by three or four 

 larger scales, liostral largely in contact with the frontonasal ; proe- 

 frontals either forming a suture or narrowly separated ; frontal 

 small, in contact with the first and second supraoculars, in contact 

 with or sex^arated from the interparietal ; latter very large, formed 

 by fusion with the frontoparietals ; five supraoctilars, second largest, 

 fifth smallest ; five or six supraciliaries, second largest ; a pair of 

 large michals. Ear-opening roundish, about as large as the pupil. 

 Scales smooth or feebly striated ; dorsals largest ; the two median 

 series strongly dilated transversely in specimens with fewer (20 or 

 22) longitudinal series of scales. Limbs well developed, pentadac- 

 tyle ; the hind limb reaches the axilla, or not so far : digits long 

 and slender, smooth inferiorly. Tail a little longer than head and 

 body. 



Irregularly distributed over the hotter parts of both liemispheres. 





