15. 8CINCU8.— 16. OPHIOMORtJa, 393 



iiiilliiu. inilliiu. 



Total Icngtli 128 Fore limb 20 



Head 17 Hind limb 23 



Width of head .... 11 Tail 54 



Body 57 



Arabia, 



8, Scincus mitranus. 

 Scincus mitranus, Anders. Proc. As. Soc. Bent/. 1871, p. Ho. 



Like S. mcccensis, this species is distinguished from those preceding 

 in having five supraoculars. From IS. meccensis it differs in having 

 29 or 30 scales round tlie body. Yellowish buft' above, each scale 

 with a white spot in the centre of its free margin, with a brown 

 spot on cither side of it ; ten vertically more or less elongated, or 

 more or less rounded, deep red-brown spots on each side ; lower 

 surfaces yellowish. 



Arabia. 



16. OPHIOMORUS *. 



Ophiomorus, Dmn. ^' Bibr. v. p. 799 ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 121. 

 Sphenocephalus (non Aqass.), Bli/th, Journ. As. Soc. Benq. xxii. 



1853, p. 654 ; (iunili. 'liept. Brit. Ind. p. 98. 

 Hemipodium, Steindarhn. Sitzb. Ah. IFien, Iv. i. 1867, p. 265. 

 Zygnopsis, Blanf. Ann. 4' May. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 33, and Zool. 



E. Persia, p. 396. 

 Sphenoscincus, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1875, p. 553. 

 Zygiiidopsis, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlviii. 1879, p. 128. 



Palatine bones not meeting on the median line of the palate, 

 which is toothless. Teeth conical or with obtuse crowns. Eye 

 small ; lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Ear 

 hidden or hardly distinguishable. Nostril pierced in the suture 

 between a nasal and a supranasal ; pra^frontals very small or 

 absent ; frontoparietals small, distinct from interparietal. Body 

 much elongate : limbs rudimentary or absent. 



Greece ; South-western Asia, from Asia Minor and Syria to 

 North-western India ; Algeria ? 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Limbs present, 



A, Snout wedge-shaped, with angular labial edge. 



Fingers and toes three 1 . tridactylus, p, 394. 



Fingers four, toes three 2. blanfordii, p. 395. 



* ? Sphenocephalus pentadacfylus, Bedclome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870, 

 p. 30. — Beypoor, ilalabar. 



