9. ABLEPnARXJS. 353 



others together ; four small supraciliaries ; four labials anterior to 

 the subocular. Ear-opening distinct. 2-4 scales round tlie body. 

 Bronzy above, finely dotted with black ; four black streaks along 

 the back ; sometimes two white, black-edged lines along each side. 



iiiillim. millini. 



Total length 85 Hind limb li 



Head 7 Tail 48 



Fore limb 8 



Cabinda, West Africa. 



11. Ablepharus bivittatus. 



Ablepharus bivittatus, Gray, Cat. p. 64. 

 Scincus bi-v-ittatus, Menetr. Catal. Rais. p. 64. 

 Ablepharus menestriesii, Dum. i^- Bibr. v. p. 811. 

 bivittatus, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Petersh. vi. 1808, p. 563, 



and Bull. xii. p. -'(JO ; Blnnf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 390, pi. xxvii. 



fig. 2 ; Boettg. in liachle, Faun. Flur. Casp.-Geb. p. 57. 



Snout short, obtuse, rostral not projecting. Eye entirely 

 surrounded by a circle of granules or small scales, of which the 

 three on the upper border are the largest, llostral largely in contact 

 with the frontonasal; praefrontals forming a median suture which 

 nearly equals the length of the frontonasal ; frontal large, as long 

 as the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the 

 first and second supraoculars ; frontoparietals and interparietal 

 distinct ; three (or four) supraoculars, first largest ; five supra- 

 ciliaries, first largest ; two or three pairs of nuchals ; four labials 

 anterior to the subocular ; ear-opening small, suboval, with two 

 minute projecting lobules anteriorly. 24 (or 22) scales round the 

 body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Two very large praeanals. 

 Limbs well developed, pcntadactyle ; the adpressed limbs overlap, 

 but the hind limb does not reach the axilla; digits obtusely keeled 

 inferiorly. Tail a little longer than head and body. Bronzy olive 

 above, with darker spots with a light central shaft ; a dark band, 

 edged with a whitish streak inferiorly, on each side, beginning from 

 the nostril and passing through the eye ; lower surfaces greenish 

 white. 



Northern Persia and Transcaucasia. 



a-b. Ad. Kushkizard, between Shiraz W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



and Isfahan. 



12. Ablepharus deserti. 



Ablephai-us deserti, Strauch, Mel. Biol. Ac. St. Petersh. vi. 1868, 

 p. 504, and Bull. xii. p. 306. 

 VOL. III. 2 A 



