9. ablepharus. 351 



millliu. millim. 



Total length 93 Fore limb 8 



Head 8 Hind limb 11-5 



Width of head .... 5 Tail 53 



Body 32 



East and South-east i^frica. 



a-b. Ad. Natal. Sir A. Smith | P.I. (Types.) 



c. Ilgr. Lake Nyas.sa. B. Ihehvall, Esq. [0.]. 



<Z. Ad. IJftwoeu the coast and Uu- Capt. Speke [P.J. 



yamwezi, 5° 7' lat. S. 



e. Ad. Near Lake Tanganika. Sir .1. Kirk [C.]. 



7. Ablephanis brandtii. 



Scinciis paiiutmicus i7ion Fitz.), Licht. in Erersm. i?e?i'e, p. 145, and 



Ve)-z. I)onb. Mns. Berl. p. 103. 

 Ableplianis pannoniciis, Brandt, in Lehmann's Reise n. BucJiara u. 



Samarhand, pp. 1G8, 333. 

 brandtii, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Petersb. vi. 1868, p. 565, 



and Bidl. xii. p. 368 ; Blanf. ZooL E. Persia, p. 391, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 ; 



Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 354. 

 Blepharosteres agilis, Stoliczha, Proc. As. Soc. Beny. 1872, p. 126. 

 Ablephai-us pusillus, Blanf. Ann. S,- May. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 33. 



Snout short, obtuse, rostral not projecting. Eye surrounded by 

 a circle of small scales, the two upper of Avhich are much larger 

 than the others. Rostral largely in contact with the frontonasal, 

 which is in contact with the frontal ; latter moderately large, in 

 contact with the first and second supraoculars; frontoparietal single ; 

 interparietal distinct ; three (or four) supraoculars, first largest ; 

 five small supraciliaries, first largest ; two pairs of uuchals ; four 

 labials anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening very small. 20 (or 

 22) scales round the middle of the body, dorsals largest. Two 

 enlarged praeanals. Limbs short, pentadactyle, not meeting when 

 adpressed. Tail longer than head and body. Olive above, with a 

 dark brown lateral band edged above by a light line. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 76 Fore limb 6-5 



Head 6 Hind limb 10 



AVidth of head 4 Tail 46 



Body 24 



Mesopotamia, Bokhara, Samarkand, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind. 



a. Ad. Oalyk-taii, Samarkand. St. Petersburg Mus. [E.]. (One 



of the types.) 



h. Ad. Helmand. Dr.Aitchison^C]. Afghan Boun- 



dary Commission. 



c. Ad. Bussora. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. (One 



of the types of A. pusillm.) 



