196 CATALOGUE OF MEXICAN ANIMALS. 



84. Cnemidophorus lineatissimus Cope. 



CvemUlo])liorns lineatissimus Cope, Proc. Am. Pliilos. Soc, 1877, p. 94. 



Vulg. — Cuije. 



J3a6.~State of Puebla. Cbiiintla, Ko. 148 (obsoletiis.) 



Fam. SCINCID^. 



85. Oligosoma gemmingeri Cope. 



Oligosoma tjemmingeri Cope, Proc. Acad. Philad., 1864, p. 180. 

 Lygosoma (mocoa) Gemmxngerii Cope, Dum^ril et Bocourt, Miss. Scient. Mes., 

 Ill, p. 449. 



Yulg. — Eslaboncillo. 



^«&.— State of Vera Crnz. Jalapa, Xos. 332, 336. 



86. Eumeces furcirostris Cope. 



Eumeces furcirostris Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, 1884, p. 169. (Printed 

 March 7, 1885.) 



Yulg. — Lagartija rayada. 



^•a&.—State of Puebla. Teziutlan, Nos. 172, 173, 174, December. 



Fam. ANELYTROPSIDiE. 



87. Anelytropsis papillosus Cope. 



Anelyiropsis papillosus Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 380. 



Vulg. — Culebra cbica. 



jffa&._State of Vera Cruz. Jalapa, No. 87. 



The iDresent form is esseutially interesting as introducing for the first 

 time to the Western continent the family of the Anelytropidse, or the 

 Typhlophthalm lizards with the eye entirely concealed, and with the 

 tongue scaly. The importance of this discovery is considerable, as it 

 shows that the scincoid lizards have undergone in the New World the 

 same degenerative process as in the Old World, and in the same way. 

 This is a new fact, even supposing that the Aniellida^ of America are a 

 degenerate form of the same family, which is not probable. Dr. Bou- 

 lenger believes* that that family is a degenerate type of the Anguid 

 stem ; a view in which I suspect he is correct. Anelytropsis is a degree 

 further down in the scale than Aniella, in having the epidermis abso- 

 lutely continuous over the eye, as in other members of the family of 

 Anelytropidffi, and as in the Typhlopid family of snakes. As in other 

 forms of this character, the life of this type is doubtless subterranean, 

 which accounts for its having so long escaped observation. — E. D. 

 OOPE, 1. c. 



*Aunals and Magazine of Natural History, 1885, p. 121. 



