RECORDS OF IV. A. MUSEUM. 
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CRYPTOBLEPHARUS RHODONOIDES. L. &F. 
Ablepharus rhodonoides, Lucas and Frost, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXI,, 
1896, p. 281. 
? Ablepharus distinguendus, Werner, Faun. Siidwest. Austr., II., 1901, p. 490. 
The resemblance between this small Crypioblephanis and Lygo~ 
soma (Rhodona) fragile, Gunther, is very striking indeed, rendering 
the specific name proposed for it by Messrs. Lucas and Frost a very 
appropriate one. It was originally described from Mildura, a town- 
ship on the Victorian side of the Murray River. I am now able to 
extend its range to both Western Australia and New South Wales. 
In the Western Australian Collection is a specimen from the Strelley 
River. The Australian Museum Collection contains numerous 
specimens from the following localities : — Perth and Boulder, 
Western Australia ; Mildura, on the Murray River, Victoria (one 
of the types); Darling River, Moloch, Bindogmidra and Narra- 
mine, on the Western Plains of New South Wales. 
A careful examination of all my specimens shows that this 
species is not a variable one, indeed I can find no point in which 
they differ from the original description, or from the co-type speci- 
men in the Australian Museum. 
It seems to me very probable that the scink described by Dr. 
Werner as Ablepharus distinguendus really belongs to this species. 
Dr. Werner’s description is very meagre however, and I cannot be 
sure of this. The only difference that I can detect is in the number 
of scale rows, which in his new species are eighteen in number 
whereas in all my specimens of C . rhodonoides they are in twenty. 
A. distinguendus is stated to be very closely allied to Cryptoblepharus 
muelleri, Fischer, with which species Messrs. Lucas and Frost also 
compare C. rhodonoides. 
