356 sciKciD^. 



15. Ablepharus inuelleri. 



Phaneropis muelleri, Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1881, p. 236, pi. xii. 

 figs. 13-15. 



Apparently verj' closely allied to the preceding, but differing in 

 the following points : — A single supraciliary, nearly as large as 

 and situated between the first and third supraoculars. 20 scales 

 round the body. Limbs tridactyle. ^Metallic green above, with a 

 dark band on each side, commencing from the nostril and passing 

 through the eye. 



milliin. millim. 



Total length 85 Hind limb 10 



Pore Hmb 5 Tail 45 



"West Australia. 



16, Ablepharus lineatus. 



Lerista lineata, Gray, Cat. p. 66. 

 Lerista lineata, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 99, and Zool. Journ. 

 V. 1835, p. 393, pi. xvi. fig. 2 ; Dum. 8f Bihr. v. p. 821. 



Snout rather elongate, conical, subcuneit'orm, rostral slightly pro- 

 jecting. Eye incompletely surrounded with granules, liostral 

 touching the frontonasal, which forms a broad suture with the fron- 

 tal ; prJBfrontals small and widely separated ; frontal nearly as long 

 as its distance from the nuchals, in contact with the two anterior 

 supraoculars ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct ; three supra- 

 oculars, second largest ; three supraciliaries, first largest ; three 

 pairs of nuchals ; three labials anterior to the subocular. Ear- 

 opening scarcely distinguishable. Body much elongate. 16 scales 

 round the body ; dorsals largest. Two large praeanals. Limbs very 

 short, anterior didactyle, posterior tridactyle. Silvery ; a dark 

 brown streak along each of the vertebral series of scales, and a 

 broader lateral banu of the same colour extending to the nostril and 

 passing through the eye. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 98 Fore limb 5 



Head 7 Hind limb 11 



Width of head .... 4 Tail (reproduced) . . 45 



Body 46 



Western Australia. 



a. Ad. Swan River. 



10. RISTELLA. 



Ristella, Gray, Ann. N. JI. ii. 1839, p. 86, and Cat. Liz. -p. 85; 

 Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beny. xli. 1872, p. 129. 



Palatine and pterygoid bones in contact on the median line of 

 the palate, which is toothless ; palatine notch small, far behind, 



