74 REPTILES. 



1. Scales thin, smooth, not striated nor keeled, unarmed. Nasal 

 fiat, smooth, icithoiit am/ lunate groove behind the nostril. Tail 

 round, tapering, unarmed. 



A. Toes depressed, fringed on the side. Head ivedge-shaped. Ros- 

 tral depressed, keeled in front. Nostril in the middle of the 

 upper edge of the nasal^ ivith a triangular supranasal above the 

 nostril. Scinciiia. 



1. SciNcus, Fitz., Gray. 



Muzzle wedge-shaped. Rostral depressed, sharp-edged, trun- 

 cated in front. Frontoparietal plates 2. Nostril lateral, in the 

 upper front edge of the nasal, immediately under the triangular 

 supranasal. Lower eyelid scaly. Tongue scaly, nicked. Palate 

 toothed, with a longitudinal notch. Ears small, toothed in front. 

 Limhs 4, short. Toes 5-5, nearly equal, flatted, toothed on the 

 edge. Body angular below. Scales smooth. Tail conical, pointed. 



Bury themselves with great rapidity in the sand, Bruce. Ly- 

 on's Trav. 184-5. 



The Officinal Skink. Scincns officinalis, Laur. Syn. 55. 

 Schn. Savig. Rept. Egypt, t. 2,f. 8. Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 288. — 

 Dum. et Bib. E. G. v. 564, t. ^7,f. 3, the foot. Lacerta Stincus, 

 Hasselq. L. Scincns, Linn. S. N. i. ed. 10, 205. El Adda, 

 Bruce, Voy. v. 226, t. 39, cop. Shaio, N. Misc. t. 1031. Sav. Rep. 

 Egypt, i. t. 2,/. 8. L. agilis, Meyer, 133, not Linn. L. Edda, 

 Donndrojf, Zool. Beytr. ii. 134. Asilis, Lyon, Trav. 184-5. 



Fulvous, with brown cross bands ; preanal scales 2. 



(I. Adult, in spirits, bleached. N. Africa. 



b. Adult, in spirits. N. Africa, Egypt. Presented by M. Lefebre. 

 (', d. Adult and half-grown, in spirits. N. Africa, Egypt. Pre- 

 sented by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson. 



B. Toes compressed, simple. Head suh quadrangular. Rostral erect, 

 triangular. Nostril in the middle of nasal shield. Lygosomina. 



a. Supranasal plate none. Body fusiform. Loiver eyelid covered 

 with scales. Frontoparietal separate. 



2. HiNULiA. Lygosoma, part, Dum. et Bib. Le Keneux, part, 



Cocteau. 



Frontal plate oblong. Rostral erect, triangular. Palate tooth- 

 less, with a deep triangular notch in front. Body fusifomi. Scales 

 smooth, thin ; the 2 central preanal scales larger than the rest. 

 Tail tapering, roundish. Legs moderate. Toes 5-5, slender, com- 

 pressed. Heel of the hind feet surrounded with granules, 



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