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parietal, prefrontals, and two anterior supraoculars. Prefrontals about half as 
large as the frontal, not in contact. Frontoparietal large, much larger than the 
frontal. Interparietal distinct, small, hardly as large as a prefrontal. Four 
supraoculars, anterior smallest, second largest. Labials six, fourth long and 
below the orbit. Parietals broad, in contact behind the interparietal. Two 
pairs of broad nuchals. Earopening small, nearly hidden by sharp lobules 
from the upper and the lower edges. Scales smooth, in twenty-four rows 
around the body, scales of flank smallest. Preanals small. Limbs short, ante- 
rior tetradactyl, posterior pentadactyl, not meeting when adpressed. Digits 
short, outer on the hind foot very short. Tail longer than head and body. 
Brownish olive above, lighter toward the belly, with small spots of brown 
below the hinder part of the abdomen, under the tail, on the limbs, along the 
lower edges of the flanks, and on the lips and the sides of the throat; belly, 
throat, and lower surface of tail white. 
Near A. Greyi Gray, of Western and Southern Australia. 
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland ; G. B. R. Exp. 
Ablepharus eximius Garm. 
Cryptoblepharus eximius GIR. 
Specimens captured by Dr. Woodworth at Nai Robu, Niue Lagoon, and 
Moala Island, Fijis, are of a very lustrous dark brown, with black flanks, and 
dark olive on the lower surfaces ; the light streak above the eye is faint 
and extends but little farther back on the flank than the almost obsolete 
line below the eye. The mental shield alone of the lower surface is white. 
Another locality is represented by a type which agrees with the preceding 
from the Fijis except in having the light color of the mental shield carried 
backward to about the middle of the abdomen. It was taken by Dr. Mayer in 
the neighborhood of Cooktown. 
Ablepharus virgatus, sp. nov. 
Form and size like those of A. lineo-ocellatus D. B. or A. teniopleurus Pet. ; 
tail as long as head and body. Head medium; snout short, blunt, rostral 
shield not projecting. Eye incompletely surrounded by granules. Rostral 
largely in contact with frontonasal, which is widely separated from the frontal. 
Frontal less than half as large as the frontonasal, in contact with the inter- 
parietal by a narrow suture. Interparietal three or more times the size of the 
frontal, fused with frontoparietals. Four supraorbitals, second largest and in 
contact. with frontal and frontoparietal. Four supraciliaries, anterior largest, 
elongate. A pair of very broad nuchals followed by other pairs, not quite so 
broad, the widths of which gradually decrease to the neck. Four labials ante- 
rior to the subocular. Earopening small, hardly half the size of the pupil, 
