356 SCINCIDE. 
15. Ablepharus muelleri. 
Phaneropis muelleri, Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1881, p. 236, pl. xii. 
figs. 13-15. 
Apparently very closely allied to the preceding, but differing in 
the following points:—A single supraciliary, nearly as large as 
and situated between the first and third supraoculars. 20 scales 
round the body. Limbs tridactyle. Metallic green above, with a 
dark band on each side, commencing from the nostril and passing 
through the eye. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 85 Hind limb ........ 10 
Fore limb ........ 5 Matlis snwseweeucds 45 
West Australia. 
16. Ablepharus lineatus. 
Lerista lineata, Gray, Cat. p. 66. 
Lerista lineata, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 99, and Zool, Journ. 
v. 1835, p. 393, pl. xvi. fig. 2; Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 824. 
Snout rather elongate, conical, subcuneitorm, rostral slightly pro- 
jecting. Eye incompletely surrounded with granules. Rostral 
touching the frontonasal, which forms a broad suture with the fron- 
tal; prefrontals 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 ; three supra- 
oculars, second largest; three supraciliaries, first largest; three 
pairs of nuchals; three labials anterior to the subocular. Ear- 
opening scarcely distinguishable. Body much elongate. 16 scales 
round the body ; dorsals largest. Two large preanals. Limbs very 
short, anterior didactyle, posterior tridactyle. Silvery; a dark 
brown streak along each of the vertebral series of scales, and a 
broader lateral band of the same colour extending to the nostril and 
passing through the eye. 
millim. 
Total length ...... 98 Fore limb ........ 5 
Head . pall af Hind limb . . ii 
Width of head . 4 Tail (reproduced) . 45 
BOO tn. sass, bare te 46 
Western Australia. 
a. Ad. Swan River. 
10. RISTELLA. 
Ristella, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1839, p. 86, and Cat. Liz. p. 85; 
Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 129. 
Palatine and pterygoid bones in contact on the median line of 
the palate, which is toothless ; palatine notch small, far behind, 
