9. ABLEPHARUS, 355 
20 scales round the middle. of the body ; dorsals largest, laterals 
smallest. Two very large preanals. Limbs very short, pentadactyle, 
widely separated when adpressed ; digits obtusely keeled inferiorly. 
Tail as long as, or a little longer than, head and body. Bronzy 
olive above, sides darker; a blackish, light-edged lateral streak on 
each side, beginning from the nostril and passing through the eye ; 
lower surfaces greenish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 102 Fore limb ........ 8 
Head..........., 8 Hind limb........ Il 
Width of head .... 5 SPAT o..5 aie. 40" ow .ct 51 
Bod yaw ceteses 43 
Hungary to Greece and Asia Minor; Syria; North Arabia. 
a-b. Ad. Hungary. Dr. Heckel. 
ec. Ad. Albania. G. Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 
d-e. Ad. Rhodes. C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.]. 
f. Ad. Xanthus. Haslar Collection. 
g. Ad. Beyrut. 
14. Ablepharus elegans. 
Miculia elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 66. 
Miculia elegans, Gray, Zool, Erebus and Terror, Rept. pl. v. fig. 3. 
Snout rather elongate, conical, rostral slightly projecting. Eye 
incompletely surrounded with granules. Nasals forming a suture 
behind the rostral; frontonasal forming a broad suture with the 
frontal, the preefrontals being small and widely separated ; frontal 
nearly as long as its distance from the nuchals, in contact with the 
two anterior supraoculars ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 
latter largest ; three supraoculars, first smallest, second largest ; three 
rather large supraciliaries ; three or four pairs of nuchals; three 
or four labials anterior to the subocular. ar-opening minute, 
hardly distinct. Body much elongate. 16 scales round the body ; 
dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Two large preeanals. Limbs short, 
tetradactyle, widely separated when adpressed; digits long and 
slender. Tail about as long as head and body. Bronzy above, each 
of the dorsal scales on the vertebral line with a black central dot ; 
a black lateral band, edged below with a narrow white line, begin- 
ning from the nostril and passing through the eye. 
millim. ice “ 
oo. em a 
Width of head ...... 4 Marl: in gice ees es 46 
BOOY iis sie ewenee es 36 
West Australia. 
a-c. Ad, W. Australia. Mr. Gilbert [C.]. _ (Types.) 
d.Hgr. Champion Bay, N.W. Australia. Mr. paar [O-} 
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