15. scrncus.—16. oputomorvsa, 393 
millim. : millim 
Total length ...... 128 Fore limb ........ 20 
Head ............ 17 Hind limb........ 23 
Width of head .... 11 Dal «scm osseinc ds g ree 
Body ............ 57 
Arabia. 
8. Scincus mitranus. 
Scincus mitranus, Anders. Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1871, p. 115. 
Like S. meccensis, this species is distinguished from those preceding 
in having five supraoculars. From S.’meccensis it differs in having 
29 or 30 scales round the body. Yellowish buff above, each scale 
with a white spot in the centre of its free margin, with a brown 
spot on either side of it; ten vertically more or less elongated, or 
more or less rounded, deep red-brown spots on each side; lower 
surfaces yellowish. 
Arabia. 
16. OPHIOMORUS*. | 
Ophiomorus, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 799; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 121. 
Sphenocephalus (non Agass.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 
1853, p. 654; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 98. 
Hemipodium, Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lv. i, 1867, p. 265. 
Zygnopsis, Blanf. Ann. § May. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 33, and Zool. 
4, Persia, p. 396. 
Sphenoscincus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1875, p. 553. 
Zygnidopsis, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlviii. 1879, p. 128. 
Palatine bones not meeting on the median line of the palate, 
which is toothless. Teeth conical or with obtuse crowns. Eye 
small; lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Ear 
hidden or hardly distinguishable. Nostril pierced in the suture 
between a nasal and a supranasal; prefrontals very small or 
absent ; frontoparietals small, distinct from interparietal. Body 
much elongate; limbs rudimentary or absent. , 
Greece; South-western Asia, from Asia Minor and Syria to 
North-western India: Algeria ? 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Limbs present. 
A. Snout wedge-shaped, with angular labial edge. 
Fingers and toes three.............. 1. tridactylus, p. 394. 
Fingers four, toes three ............ 2. blanfordii, p. 395. 
* ? Sphenocephalus pentadactylus, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870, 
p- 80.—Beypoor, Malabar, 
