9. ABLEPHARUS. 351 
millim willim 
Total length ...... 93 Fore limb ........ 8 
Mead: 3:5 -cigewer vers 8 Hind limb ........ 11-5 
Width of head 5 Walls sina wae eae a es 53 
BOdY: a socs sr'scoie. Gears 32 
Kast and South-east Africa. 
a-b. Ad. Natal. SirA. Smith [P.1. (Types.) 
ce. Her. Lake Nyassa. B. Thelwall, Esq. [C. |. 
d, Ad. Between the coast and Un- — Capt. Speke (Pt 
yamwezi, 5°7' lat. 8. 
e. Ad. Near Lake Tanganika. Sir J. Kirk [C.}. 
7. Ablepharus brandtii. 
Scincus pannonicus (non Fitz.), Licht. in Eversm. Reise, p. 145, and 
Verz. Doub. Mus. Berl. p. 103. 
Ablepharus pannonicus, Brandt, in Lehmann’s Reise n. Buchara u. 
Samarkand, pp. 168, 333. 
brandtii, Strauch, Mél, Biol. Ac. St. Pétersb, vi. 1868, p. 565, 
and Bull. xii. p. 368 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 391, pl. xxvii. fig. 1; 
Murray, Zool, Sind, p, 364. 
Blepharosteres agilis, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 126. 
Ablepharus pusillus, Blanf. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 33. 
Snout short, obtuse, rostral not projecting. Eye surrounded by 
a circle of small scales, the two upper of which are much larger 
than the others. Rostral largely in contact with the frontonasal, 
which is in contact with the frontal; latter moderately large, in 
contact with the first and second supraoculars; frontoparietal single ; 
interparietal distinct; three (or four) supraoculars, first largest ; 
five small supraciliaries, first largest; two pairs of nuchals; four 
- labials anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening very small. 20 (or 
22) scales round the middle of the body, dorsals largest. Two 
enlarged preanals. Limbs short, pentadactyle, not meeting when 
adpressed. Tail longer than head and body. Olive above, with a 
dark brown lateral band edged above by a light line. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 76 Fore limb ........ 6°5 
Head since twice 6 Hind limb ........ 10 
Width of head 4 Pal coda aqceeatene ase 46 
Body ......+-+--- 24 
Mesopotamia, Bokhara, Samarkand, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind. 
a. Ad. Oalyk-tau, Samarkand. St. Petersburg Mus. [E.]. (One 
of the types.) 
b, Ad. Helmand. Dr. Aitchison [C.]. Afghan Boun- 
dary Commission. 
c. Ad. Bussora. W. T. Blanford, Esq.[(C.]. (One 
of the types of 4. pusellus.) 
