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The genus Sauresia deserves to be kept strictly apart from Celestus 

 in spite of its apparent resemblance to the exceedingly attenuate and 

 weaklimbed Celestus sagrae of Cuba and C. pleei in Puerto Rico. 



The gap that exists between Wetmorena and Celestus is bridged by 

 Sauresia, which resembles each genus in certain characters. Like 

 Wetmorena, Sauresia has but four toes and fingers, and the relation- 

 ships of toe length are similar in both. It differs from Wetmorena in 

 possessing an ear opening and in having a relatively longer and nar- 

 rower head. In these very respects it resembles the Cuban and Puerto 

 Rican Celesti, although differing from these markedly in foot structure. 



SAURESIA SEPSOIDES Gray 



Figure 70 



1852. Sauresia sepsoides Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 10, p. 282 (type 

 locality, San Domingo; type in Brit. Mus.). — Bocourt, Mission scientifique 

 au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale, Recherches zoologiques, Rep- 

 tiles, livr. 7, p. 455, pi. 22G, figs. 5-5f, 1881 (Hayti).— Cochran, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928. 



1863. Embryopus habichii Weinland, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Ges., vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 

 136, pi. 5, figs. 1, a-e (type locality, JerSmie, Hayti; type in Berlin Mus.). — 

 Enbryopus h. Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 303, 1914. 



1885. Sauresia sepoides Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the 

 collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 295, pi. 14, fig. 2. — Barbour, 

 Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 100, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 123, 1935; Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 139, 1937. 



1914. Celestus sepoides Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 303; 

 Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 7, p. 13, 1919, p. 13. — C. sepsoides 

 Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 16, 1921. — Cochran, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 10, 1924; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 41, p. 54, 1928. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 65785, from Samana and Laguna, 

 Dominican Republic, collected in March 1923 by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Head moderately elongate, its width about two-thirds of its length 

 measured from the posterior border of the ear. Rostral low, rhom- 

 boidal, much wider than high, not touching the nasal, in contact with 

 the first supralabial and followed by a pair of supranasals broadly in 

 contact; a pair of frontonasals twice as long as the supranasals; pre- 

 frontal undivided, broader than long, roughly pentagonal in outline 

 but with the posterior border indented in the center where it meets a 

 slight anterior prolongation of the frontal; frontal almost twice as 

 long as broad, wider than the supraoculars, in contact broadly with 

 the second and third and very narrowly with the first supraocular; 

 parietals large, separated from each other by the occipital, separated 

 from tlie supraoculars by three small scales on each side ; interparietal 

 triangular, about equal to a parietal in area, and about twice as large 

 as the fan-shaped occipital that follows it; five supraoculars, the second 

 the largest; a single nasal plate, its lower border in contact with the 



