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round, tapering regularly. Distance from snout to fore-leg contained one and 
one-half times in the distance from axilla to vent. Snout short, shorter than 
the space between the eye and the ear. Lower eyelid scaly, transparent. Ros- 
tral hexagonal, wider than high, truncate, in contact with the frontonasal. 
Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal. Nasal quadrangular, in con- 
tact with the first labial ; postnasal in contact with second labial ; loreal in 
contact with second and third labials. Labials seven, fifth and sixth below 
the eye. Frontal one and one-half times as long as wide, broadly in contact 
with the frontonasal and with the anterior two pairs of supraoculars; prefron- 
tals small; frontonasal broader than long, octagonal ; froutoparietals moderate, 
little larger than the interparietal; parietals large, meeting behind the inter- 
parietal. Three to four pairs of nuchals, twice as wide as the shields behind 
them. A large shield and a much smaller one at the outer side of each parie- 
tal. Four supraorbitals, second widest. Five or six broad shields between the 
eye and the ear. Seven or eight supraciliaries. Mental shield large, broad, in 
contact with two labials and a submental. Anterior submental broader than 
long, in contact with five shields, followed on each side by four broad sub- 
mentals, the anterior pair of which meet on the median line, the second pair 
are separated by a single small scale, and the third pair are separated by three 
scales. Haropening subelliptical, oblique, little smaller than the eye, with 
several hardly noticeable lobules on the anterior border. Scales smooth, in 
twenty-four rows around the body, dorsals larger and laterals little smaller 
than the ventrals ; a pair of enlarged preanals. Below the tail the scales are 
somewhat larger than those on the upper surfaces. Rostral, nasals, first labial 
and mentals have in most cases the appearance of being thicker than the other 
head scales or of having retained the slough. Digits weak, slightly compressed ; 
subdigital lamellz forming a low keel, nineteen under the fourth toe. 
Bronzed olive on the back, more or less lightly sprinkled with black spots 
which become more numerous toward and on the tail and on the limbs. Belly 
and lower side of tail uniform whitish. Scales of sides and lower surfaces of 
head and throat with black spots, those of labials and submentals most intense. 
Entire flanks closely spotted with small black spots; in cases the spots of sides 
and back become longitudinal streaks. On some individuals the back is more 
thickly covered with spots which are smaller forward and on the back of the 
head, and each labial bears a white vertical bar in the middle, the black spots 
being situated on the sutures and covering a portion of each scale. 
Differs from L. isolepis Boul. and L. elegantulum Pet. & Dor. in the smaller 
number of scales. 
Barrier Reef, Australia ; G. B. R. Exp. : Queensland ; Mr. Olive. 
Ablepharus heteropus, sp. nov. 
Head medium ; snout short blunt, rounded, slighly projecting. Eye sur- 
rounded by granules. Rostral slightly swollen, largely in contact with the 
frontonasal; frontal moderate, hexagonal, in contact with frontonasal, inter- 
