THE REPTILES OF BERMUDA. 



SAURIA.— Lizards. 



EUMECES LONGIROSTRIS CopC. 



TESTUDINATA.— Turtles. 



Sphargis coriacea Gray. Leather Back. 

 Chelonia mydas Schw. Green. 

 Thalassochelys caouana Fitz. Loggerhead. 

 Eretmochelys imbricata Fitz. Hawksbill. 



Five species of reptiles are all that are known to be found on the 

 Bermudas. Only one of the five, Eumeces longirostris,* can bo claimed 

 by these islands as their own. This one is a long-bodied, short-limbed, 

 red-faced little seine, which loves the sunshine so brilliantly reflected in 

 the bronzed tint of the smooth glossy scales, which has colors so subdued 



*EUMECES LONGIROSTRIS. 

 Plestiodon longirostris Cope, 1861, Pr. Ac. Phil., 313. 

 Eumeces longirostris Cope, 187.^, Check List, 45. 

 Eumeces longirostris Goode, Am. Jour. Sci. 1877, 290. 



Body moderately stout, fusiform, depressed ; head little larger than the neck, swol- 

 len at the angle of the mouth, tapering to the narrow muzzle; tail about one-sixth 

 longer than the body, stout, conical, tapering to a point. Limbs short, rather stout ; 

 anterior reaching the fourth labial, posterior — without the toes — extending half way 

 to the axilla. Digits compressed, with strong curved nails. Eye small ; lower lid 

 with large scales in front of the pupil which are translucent, if not transparent. 

 Mouth-cleft medium, curved. Snout elongate, slightly swollen near the end in large 

 specimens. Top of head somewhat flattened, with nineteen shields. Internasals in 

 contact between anterior prefrontal and rostral. Prefrontals three, a pair in contact 

 between frontal and anterior ; latter broader than long, hexangular. Frontal hex- 

 angular, widening forward, obtuse angled in front. Supraoculars four on each side, 

 anterior small, in contact with frontal and prefrontals. A pair of small quadrangular 

 parietals, separating occipitals and frontal, in contact by their interior angles. Inter- 

 occipital elongate, narrow, wider and acute-angled forward. Posteriorly each occipi- 

 tal is joined by a large broad scale and laterally by an elongate temporal. Three 

 plates between the angle of the eye and the nasal, anterior small. Rostral little 

 broader than high, convex. Temporals 1 — 2, lower posterior large, semicircular mar- 

 gin forward, resting upon the hinder labial. Labials eight, anterior five lower, pos- 

 terior three larger, sixth and seventh in contact with the small scales covering the 

 eyelid, fourth and fifth in contact with a pair of small scales below the front angle 

 of the eye. Mental large, broader than long, broader than rostral. Infralabials 

 eight (8 — 9). A broad submental (1 — ti) immediately behind the mental. Behind 

 these there are three nearly as broad, the front pair of which are in contact. Farther 

 back there are one or two elongate narrow shields touching the infralabials. Scales 



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