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SCINCUS QUINQUELINEATUS.— L««»aMs. 



Plate VI. 



Characters. Head pale red, with six obscure white lines, the two internal 

 confluent at the occiput; body dusky above, tinged with green, marked with five 

 pale white longitudinal lines; tail brown. 



Synonymes. Lacerta quinquelineata, Lin., Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 366. 

 Lacerta quinquelineata, Latr., Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. i. p. 248. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Daud., Wist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iv. p. 272. 

 Scincus trislatus, Baud., MSS. from Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iv. p. 296. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Schneid., Hist. Ampli., fas. ii. p. 201. 

 Lacerta quinquelineata, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 241. 



Lacerta tristata, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xvii. p. 524, pi. xv. fig. 2. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Merr., Versuch eines Syst. der Rept., p. 71. 

 Euprepis quinquelineatus, Wag., Natiirlich. Syst. der Amph., p. 162. 

 Scincus bicolor, Harl., Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. iv. p. 286, pi. xviii. fig. 1. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus. Hurl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 138. 



Description. The head is large, somewhat triangular, broad behind, though 

 much less so than the Scincus erythrocephalus, with the snout elongated, narrow 

 and rounded. The vertical plate is elongated, hexagonal, broad in front, narrow 

 behind; there are five occipital plates, arranged in two rows; the anterior row 

 has two plates, pentagonal, and broadest internally; the posterior row has three, 

 the middle one of which is greatly elongated, pentagonal, larger and angled in 

 front — the lateral are larger and nearly quadrilateral, with their anterior and 

 internal angles truncate, which gives them a slight pentagonal appearance; behind 

 these are several large scales. There are four large quadrilateral superior orbital 



