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SCINCUS QUINQUELINEATUS.— LmMa!M5. 



Plate XVII. 



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

 confluent at the occiput; body above, olive-brown marked Avith five pale white 

 longitudinal lines and a black lateral band; tail brown, tinged with blue. 



SrxoNrMEs. Lacerta quinquelineata, Linnxiis, Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 366. 

 Lacerta quinquelineata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1075. 

 Lacerta quinquelineata, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept, torn. i. p. 24S. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iv. p. 272. 

 Scincus tristatus, Daudin, MSS. from Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. iv. p. 296. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Schneider, Hist. Amphib., fas. ii. p. 201. 

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



Lacerta tristata, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xvii. p. 534, pi. xv. fig. 2. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 71. 

 Euprepis quinquelineatus, TVagler, Natiirlich. Syst. der Amphib., p. 162. 

 Scincus bicolor, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. iv. p. 2S6, pi. xviii. fig. 1. 

 Scincus quinquelineatus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 13S. 

 Plestiodon quinquelineatum, Dinneril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. v. p. 707. 



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

 much less so than the Scincus erythi-ocephalus, 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 

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