400 SCINCIDA. 
II. Snout wedge-shaped, sides of belly angular. [p. 406. 
Fore limb didactyle, hind limb tetradactyle.. 9. sphenopsiformis, 
Fore limb tridactyle, hind limb tetradactyle.. 10. delislit, p. 407. 
Both pairs of limbs penta- or tetradactyle .. 11. sepoides, p. 407. 
1. Chalcides ocellatus. 
Gongylus ocellatus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 128, 
Lacerta ocellata, Forsk. Hist. Anim. p. 13. 
Scincus ocellatus, Meyer, Syn. Rept. p. 80; Daud. Rept. iv. p. 308, 
1. lvi.; Oliv. Voy. Emp, Ottom. iii. p. 110, pl. xvi. fig. 1; Geoffr. 
escr. Egypte, Rept. p. 189; Aud. op. cit. Supplém. p. 178, pl. ii. 
fig. 7; Gerv. Ann. Se. Nat. (2) vi. 1836, p. 809. 
variegatus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 185. 
tiligueu, Latr. Rept. ii. p. 72; Daud. 1. ¢. p. 251. 
tirus, Rafin. Caratt, ale. n. Gen. Anim. p. 9. 
—— thyro, Metara, Mem. Zool. Roman, 1821, art. 1. 
Mabuya ocellata, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 53. 
Gongylus ocellatus, Wagl. Syst. Amph..p. 162; Bonap, Faun Ital. ; 
Gené, Syn. Rept. Sard. p. 14; Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 616; Gravenh. 
N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol, xxiii, 1851, i. p. 848 ; Strauch, Erp. Alg. 
p. 44; Anders. Proc. Zool, Soc. 1872, p. 377; De Betta, Faun. 
Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 31; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 356; Bedriaga, 
Bull. Soc. Nat, Mosc, lvi. 1882, p.48; Murray, Zool, Sind, p. 357 ; 
Camerano, Mon. Saur. Ital. p. ob 
Tiliqua ocellata, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 68. 
—— microcephala, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 292. 
Seps (Gongylus) ocellatus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 241; 
vettg. Abh. Senck., Ges. ix. 1873, p. 148, and Ber. Senck. Ges. 
1880-81, pp. 188 & 190, and Abh, Senck. Ges. xii. 1883, p.121, and 
in Kobelt, Reis. Alg. Tun. p. 471. 
Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin; eyes 
moderate ; ear-opening much larger than the nostril, subtriangular 
or subquadrangular. Nostril pierced just above the suture between 
the rostral and the first labial ; a postnasal, in contact with the first 
and second labial ; supranasals distinct ; frontal longer than broad ; 
usually the fifth labial entering the orbit. Sides of belly rounded. 
Scales smooth or feebly striated, 28 to 34 (to 38 in specimens from 
Morocco, according to Boettger) round the middle of the body. 
Limbs short but well developed and pentadactyle ; the length of the 
hind limb is usually less than the distance from the end of the snout 
to the fore limb, and enters thrice and one third to four times and 
a half in the length from snout to vent. Tail shorter than head 
and body. The coloration of the upper parts varies considerably, 
but the lower parts are constantly uniform whitish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length...... 262 Fore limb ........ 25 
Head) gies eras 21 Hind limb ........ 34 
Width of head.... 17 Pail ew sca wis's ae coos 115 
Body .......... 126 
Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Persia, Sind, Arabia, North 
Africa, Abyssinia, Somaliland. 
