34. MICRABLEPHARUS.—35. GYMNOPHTHALMUS, 427 
pairs forming a suture. Sixteen scales round the body. Four or 
five femoral pores on each side. Scales on the upper part of the 
posterior two thirds of the tail keeled. Yellowish brown above; a 
broad lateral dark brown band, commencing from the snout and 
passing through the eye and the fore limb, bordered above and below 
by a whitish streak; lower surfaces yellowish, throat and chin 
brown-dotted ; tail blue. 
millim 
From end of snout to fore limb.......... 13 
From end of snout to vent ............ 27 
MAT | oie web howe WhE Nah hb BE ale ows wees 67 
Brazil; Paraguay. 
35. GYMNOPHTHALMUS. 
Gymnophthalmus, Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. p.74; Wagler, Syst. 
Amph. p. 157; Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 11; Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 819; 
Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 63; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 466. 
Epaphelus, Cope, Journ, Ac, Philad, (2) viii. 1876, p. 118, 
Tongue moderatcly elongate, arrow-headed. Teethconical. Head 
with large regular shields; frontonasal separating the nasals; 
prefrontals present ; no frontoparietals; nostril pierced in the 
middle of a single nasal. No eyelids. Ear exposed. Limbs well 
developed; inner finger absent All the scales roundish-hexagonal, 
imbricate, smooth or feebly keeled, arranged quincuncially. No 
collar fold. Tail cylindrical. Males with, females without, femoral 
pores. 
Tropical America. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
J. Dorsal scales perfectly smooth. 
15 scales round the body ............ 1. quadrilineatus, p. 427. 
13 scales round the body ...........- 2. sumichrasti, p. 428. 
II. Dorsal scales keeled. 
15 scales round the body ...........- 3. luetkenri, p. 429. 
17 scales round the body .......-.+-+ 4, pleti, p. 429. 
1. Gymnophthalmus quadrilineatus. 
Gymnophthalmus lineata, Gray, Cat. p. 63. 
Lacerta quadrilineata, Linn. S. NV. i. p. 871. 
Seps lineatus, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 60. 
Scincus quadrilineatus, Daud. Rept. iv. p. 266, 
Gymnophthalmus quadrilineatus, Merr. Tent. p. 74; Gravenk. Nova 
Acta, Ac. Leop.- Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. p. 854; Bocourt, 1. v. p. 468, 
pl. xxii. H. fig. 4. 
— merremii, Coct. Et. Seine. ; 
—— quadrilineatus, part., Dum. § Bibr, v. p. 820. 
