92 REPTILES. 



Brown or fulvous, red spotted ; ears vertical, ovate, with seve- 

 ral large lobules in front ; plirenonasal plates wanting, the front 

 upper labial short, obliquely truucaled above (for the nasal) ; toes 

 with convex cross plates beneath. 



a. Young, in spirits, bleached. North Africa ? 



ff Ears simple. Nostrils in the middle of an oblong longitudinal 



shield. Euprepis. 



The Chinese Plestiodon. Plestiodon pulchrum, Dum. et 

 Bib. E. G. v. 710. Tiliqua pulchra. Gray, Brit. Mus. (not II- 

 lust. Ind. Zool.) Tiliqua de Gray, Coct. Tab. 



Black, back with 7 alternately broad and narrow white streaks, 

 sides white-spotted, beneath white ; ears simple ; temples flat, 

 shielded, 2 frontoparietal and the interparietal nearly of the same 

 size. 



a. In spirits. China. Presented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



Bell's Plestiodon. Plestiodon Bellii. 



Blackish, with 3 broad dark-edged white streaks, raost distinct 

 in the fore part of the back, the central one simple in front ; sides 

 with a broad black streak in front ; no small uaso-loreal shield ; 

 ears simple in front; nasal plate oblong, 4-sided. 



a. In spirits, wants the tail. ? Presented by Thomas 



Bell, Esq. 



The Chinese Plestiodon. Plestiodon Chineusis. Tiliqua 

 Chinensis, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 289. P. Sinense, Dum. et Bib. 

 E. G. V. 704. Euprepis d' Hardwick, Coct. Tab. Hardiv. Icon, 

 ined. B. M. t. Tiliqua rufoguttata. Cantor^ Ann. N. H. 1842, 

 (spec. Mus. Ind. Comp.) 



Greenish, sides and tail varied and spotted with brown ; ears 

 vertical, ovate, with some very small lobes in front ; nasoloreal 

 plates none, nasal shield oblong 4 -sided. 



a. In spirits. China. Presented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



19. EuMECES. Eumeces, part, Weigmann, Dum. et Bib. 



Head short, su])qiiadrangular. Muzzle conical, rounded. 

 Frontoparietal 2, approximate. Nostrils lateral. Nasal oblong, 

 with nostrils in the middle of its upper edge, supernasals 2, sub- 

 contiguous. Lower eyelid scaly, with a cross band of larger scales. 

 Palate with a very slight triangular notch behind, not toothed. 

 Ears large, circular, with 2 or 3 small lobes in front. Body rather 

 elongate, subcylindrical. Limbs strong. Toes b-b, beneath warty. 

 Tail elongate, rounded, subcompressed. Scales smooth, moderate 

 sized. Preanal scales equal, larger. 



