354 SCINCID A. 
Snoutshort, obtuse, rostral not projecting. Eye entirely surrounded 
by a circle of granules or small scales, the upper of which is much 
elongate. Frontonasal in contact with the rostral and with the 
frontal ; latter nearly as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal 
together, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; fronto- 
parietals and interparietal distinct; three (or four) supraoculars, 
first largest ; five supraciliaries, second largest ; two or three pairs of 
nuchals ; four labials anterior to the subocular. Har-opening small, 
suboval. 20 or 22 scales round the middle of the body; dorsals 
largest. Two large preanals. Limbs short, pentadactyle, failing to 
meet or nearly meeting when adpressed ; digits smooth or obtusely 
keeled inferiorly. Tail about once and two thirds as long as head 
and body. Bronzy olive above, uniform or with three more or less 
distinct longitudinal dark brown dorsal lines; a dark brown, light- 
edged band on each side, beginning from the nostril and passing 
through the eye; upper surface of tail frequently with dark and 
light ocelli; lower surfaces greenish white. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 112 Fore limb ........ 10 
Head integers 9 Hind limb........ 18 
Width of head .... 6 Pall, gevsactaag er pneacy 70 
Body gicgosineieeyeas 33 : 
Aralo-Caspian steppes, Turkestan. 
a. Ad. Chodshent, Aralo-Caspian St. Petersburg Museum 
‘ steppes. E,]. 
6. Many spec.: ad. Tschinas, Turkestan. St. Petersburg Museum 
& her. [E.]. 
13. Ablepharus pannonicus. 
Ablepharus pannonicus, Gray, Cat. p. 63. 
Riopa ? ruppellii, Gray, 1. c. p. 97. 
Ablepharus pannonicus, Fitzing. Verh. Ges, Naturf. Fr. i. p, 297, 
pl. xiv.; Cocteau, May. de Zool, 1835, Rept. pl. i.; Strauch, Mél. 
Biol. Ac, St. Pétersb. vi. 1868, p. 560, and Bull. xii. p. 364; Schreid. 
Herp, Eur, p. 350. ‘ 
—— kitaibelii, Bibron, in Bory, Expéd. Sc. Morée, Rept. p. 69, pl. xi. 
fie.4; Cocteau, Etudes Scinc,; Dum. § Bibr. v.p.809; Gravenh. 
N. Acta Ac. Leop.- Carol, xxiii. 1851, i. p. 858, pl. xxxvii. 
Riopa ruppellii, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1859, p. 332 *, 
Snout short, obtuse, rostral not projecting. Eye incompletely 
surrounded with granules. Frontonasal in contact with the rostral 
and with the frontal ; latter moderate, in contact with the two supra- 
oculars; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct ; two large supra- 
oculars, first in contact with the eye and preceded by two supra- 
ciliaries ; three or four pairs of nuchals; three labials anterior to 
the subocular. Ear-opening minute. Body much elongate. 18 or 
* Type (Senckenberg Museum) examined. 
