17. CnALCIDES. 



405 



niillini. 



Total length 305 



Head 13 



Syria. 



a. Ad. 



b. Ilfrr. 

 crl lisr. 



Merom. 



Mount Ilermon. 

 Lake of Galilee. 



millira. 



Width of head 8 



From SHout to vent . 105 



Canon Tristram 

 Canon Tri.stram 

 Canon Tristram [C 



[C] 



19- 



. (Types.) 



7. Chalcides mionecton. 



Seps (Gongrlus) viridanus (nwi Gravenh.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc, 



1871, p. L'43. 

 (Seps) mionecton, Boetty. Ahh. Senck. Ges. ix. 1873, p. 145, 



pi.—, tig. 6. 

 (Gongyloseps) mionecton, Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, 



p. 122. 



Intermediate between C. oeellatus and C.spJienopslformis. Snout 

 rather conical than wedge-shaped, but with distinctly projecting 

 labial edge; eye small ; ear-opening not or scarcely larger than the 

 nostril, on a line with the mouth. Nostril pierced entirely in 

 advance of the suture between the rostral and the first labial ; a 

 postnasal, in contact with the first labial : supranasals distinct or 

 united ; frontal longer than broad ; fifth labial entering the orbit. 

 Body much elongate ; sides of belly not distinctly angular, although 

 somewhat more so than in the preceding species. Scales perfectly 

 smooth, 24 (or 20) round the middle of the body. Limbs short, 

 tetradactyle ; the length of the hind limb equals or a little exceeds 

 the distance between the anterior border of the orbit and the fore 

 limb ; the length of the latter is about three fourths its distance 

 from the ear-opening. Tail shorter than head and body. Brown 

 above, usually with small yellowish black-edged ocelli ; a broad 

 yellowish band on each side of the back ; a blackish streak from 

 nostril to eye ; lips spotted with blackish ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. 



Total length 142 



Head 11 



Width of head 8 



Body 69 



Morocco, 



millim. 



Fore hmb 7 



Hind limb 15 



TaU 62 



a-h. Ad. & hgT. 

 c-d. Ad. 

 e. Ad. 



Casnblanca. 

 N.W. Africa. 

 Orotava, TeneriiFe (?). 



Zoological Society. 



R. McAndrew, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Chalcides mauritanicus. 



Heteromeles mauritanicus. Gray, Cat. p. 126. 

 Heteromeles mauritanicus, Dum. i^- Bihr. v. p. 772 ; Guichen. Explor. 

 Sc. Aly., Eept, p. 18, pi. ii. fig. 1 ; Strauch, Erp. Aly, p. 45. 



