AMPHISBANA.—MOCOA. 31 
AMPHISBASNA. 
Amphisbena, Linneus. 
Of the numerous South-American species only one is known to penetrate north- 
wards into the southernmost part of Central America. It is perhaps the most common 
of South-American Amphisbeenas. 
1. Amphisbeena fuliginosa. 
Amphisbena fuliginosa, Linn. Syst. Nat.; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 489, t. 21. figg. 5 & 6. 
Hab. Panama (Bocourt). 
Fam. SCINCIDE. 
MOCOA. 
Mocoa, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 80. 
1. Mocoa lateralis. 
Scincus lateralis, Say in Long’s Exped. Rocky Mount. 2nd ed. ii. 18238, p. 349. 
Lygosoma lateralis, Dum. & Bibr. v. p.719; Holbr. N. Amer. Rept. 2nd ed. i. p. 1338, t. 19; 
Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 446, t. 22 r. figg. 3. 
Mocoa lateralis, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 83. 
Oligosoma gemmingerii, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Se. Philad. 1864, p. 180. 
Lygosoma (Mocoa) gemmingerii, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 449. 
Hab. Norta America, Southern States.—Mexico, Orizaba and Tehuantepec (Sumi- 
chrast), Jalapa (Hége). 
Found in temperate forests (Sumichrast). 
2. Mocoa assata. 
Lampropholis assatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 179. 
Mocoa lateralis (sp. affinis), Miiller, Kat. Mus. Basel, 1878, p, 628. 
Lygosoma (Mocoa) assata, Bocourt, 1. c. p. 450, t. 22 ¥. fig. 7. 
Mocoa assata, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Philad., viii. 1876, p. 115; Sumichrast, Bull. Soc. ‘Zool. Fr. 
v. 1880, p. 179. 
Hab. Mexico, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast) ; GuaTEMALA, Rio Motagua (Salvin & Godman), 
Atitlan, Solola, Alta Vera Paz (Bocourt); Satvapor, Volcan de Isalco (Dow). 
Very common in the neighbourhood of Santa Efigenia and Tapana (Sumichrast). 
