400 sctxcid.t:. 



II. Snout wedge-shaped, sides of belly angular, r ^Qg 



Fore limb didactyle, hind limb tetradactyle . . 9. sphenopsifurmis, 

 Fore limb tridaetyle, hind liml) tetradactyle . . 10. clelisJii, p. 40". 

 Both pairs of limbs penta- or tetradactyle . . 11. sepoidet^, p. 407. 



1. Chalcides ocellatus. 



Gongylus ocellatus, part., Gray, Cat. p. ]2o. 

 Lacjrta ocolliita, Fursk. Hid. yinim. p. 13. 

 Scincus ocellatus, Meifer, Si/n. Rept. p. 30: Daud. Rept. iv. p. 308, 



pi. Ivi. ; OHv. Vol/. Einp. Ottom. iii. p. 110, pi. xvi. tig. 1 ; Geoffr. 



Descr. Ec/i/pte, llepf. p. 139 ; Aud. op. at. Supplein. p. 178, pi. ii. 



tig. 7 ; (iero. Ann. Sc. Xaf. (2) vi. 183G, p. 309. 



variegatus, Schnekl. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 185. 



tiligugu, Latr. Rept. ii. p. 72 ; Daud. I. c. p. 251. 



tirus, Rafin. Caratt. ale. n. Gen. Anim. p. 9. 



thyro, Meta.ia, Mem. Zool. Roman. 1821, art. 1. 



Mabuya ocellata, Fitzinf/. N. Class. Rept. p. 53. 



Gongylus ocellatus, Waffl. Si/.st. Amph. p. 162 ; Bonap. Faun Hal. ; 



Gene, Si/n. Rept. Sard. p. 14; Diim. iS* Bibr. v. p. (316; Gravenh. 



N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. p. 343 ; Strazich, Erp. Alg. 



p. 42 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 377 ; De Rett a, Faun. 



Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 31 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 356 ; Bedriac/a, 



Bull. Soc. Nat.' Mosc. Ivi. 1882, p. 48; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 357 ; 



Catnerano, Mon. Saxr. Ral. p. 95. 

 Tiliqua ocellata. Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. Qi^. 



■ • microcephala, (rray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 292. 



Seps (fTongylus) ocellatus, Gimth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 241; 



Boeitq. Ahh. Senc.h. Ges. ix. 1873, p. 143, and Ber. Senck. Ges. 



1880-81, pp. 138 & 190, aiid Ahh. Senck. Ges.xii. 1883, p. 121, and 



in Kohelt, Reis. Alg. Tun. p. 471. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin ; eyes 

 moderate : ear-opening much larger than the nostril, subtriangular 

 or subquadrangular. Xostril pierced just above the suture between 

 the rostral and the first labial ; a postnasal, in contact with the first 

 and second labial : supranasals distinct ; frontal longer than broad ; 

 usually the fifth labial entering the orbit. Sides of belly rounded. 

 Scales smooth or feebly striated, 28 to 34 (to 38 in specimens from 

 Morocco, according to Boettger) round the middle of the body. 

 Limbs short but well developed and pentadactyle ; the length of the 

 hind limb is usually less than the distance from the end of the snout 

 to the fore limb, and enters thrice and one third to four times and 

 a half in the length from snout to vent. Tail shorter than head 

 and body. The coloration of the upper parts varies considerably, 

 but the lower parts are constantly uniform whitish. 



millim. minim. 



Total length 262 Fore limb 25 



Head 21 Hind limb 34 



Width of head 17 Tail 115 



Body 126 



Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Persia, Sind, Arabia, North 

 Africa, Abyssinia, Somaliland. 



