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1893. Lygosoma (Liolepisma) laterale var. reevesi Boettger, Kat. Kept. Mus. 

 Senckenberg., I, p. 104 (Peking; Chapu; Napier Island; Hongkong; 

 Canton); Ber. Senckenljerg. Naturf. Ges., 1901, p. 41 (Tsushima). 



Boulenger « failed to find any distinctive characters by which to 

 separate Chinese specimens (tlie so-called L. reevesii) from North 

 American ones. In the same manner I have been unable, upon the 

 most searching comparison, to discover any difference between the 

 Riu Kiu specimens and tyjjical L. laterale. 



Description. — Adult: Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 37; 

 Miyakoshima, Riu Kiu Archipelago (figs. 190-192.) Rostral l)roadly 

 in contact with fronto-nasal, the portion visible from above much 

 smaller than the latter sliield ; no supranasals ; nostril in the center of a 

 single shield ; no postnasal ; fronto-nasal , in contact with frontal, broader 

 than long; ])ref rentals not in contact; anterior loreal in touch with first 

 supralabial, in contact with second supralabial, fronto-parietal and pre- 

 frontals; frontal much longer than its distance from tip of snout, 

 shorter than length of 

 fronto-parietals and in- ' 



ter])arietal together, very 

 \vide in fixmt, tapering 

 nearly to a point behind, 

 in contact with first and 

 second supraoculars; 

 four supraoculars, sec- 

 ond largest; fronto-pari- figs. 190-192.— Leiolopisma laterale. 2 X NAT. size. 190, top 

 etals louo" and narrow of head; 191, side of head; 192, underside of head. No. 

 ^ . . ' 37, Sci. Coll. Tokyo. 



longer than mterparietal, 



wliich is shaped like the frontal but not so long; parietals long and 

 narrow, as long as frontal, in contact behind interparietal ; four pairs of 

 nuchals, first not in contact; lower eyelid granular with a small, trans- 

 parent disk; seven supralabials, fifth under the eye, sixth largest; a 

 very large upper temporal, fan-shaped with the apex forward, in contact 

 \vith the entire outer edge of the parietal; ear-opening large, as large as 

 eye, ^^^thout lobules along the anterior border; a single unpaired pen- 

 tagonal shield l)ehind the mental ; 28 smooth scales around the middle 

 of the body, those on the sides but slightly smaller; two large preanal 

 plates with a small one on each side ; hind leg contained about three 

 times in distance from snout to vent ; fore and hind legs fail to meet 

 when pressed along the side; 16 lamellae under longest toe; tail cylin- 

 dric, pointed, with transversely widened plates underneath only 

 towards the tip (in reproduced part). Color (in alcohol) above uni- 

 form olive brown; a blackish-brown line from nostril through eye, 

 widening on tympanic region and extending above the ear-opening 



a Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, 1887, p. 264. 



