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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Touche. I owe the op])(n-tunitY to examine and describe this addition 

 to the Formosan fauna, to the kinchiess of Dr. G. A. Boulenger. 



List of specimens of Sphmomoriyhus i)i(Kcus. 



n Description, p. 21fi. 

 Genus LEIOLOPISMA " Dunieril and Bibron. 



1839. Leiolojnsma Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen.,V, p. 742 (typo, L. tdfairii). 



1843. Leiolepisma Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 22 (emendation). 



1843. Lampropholis Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 22 (type, M. guichenoti). 



1845. Mocoa Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 80 (type, M. guichenoti). 



1845. Lipinia Gray, Gat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 84 (type, L. pulchella). 



1857. Oligosoma Girard, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1857, p. 196«; author's separate, p. 4 

 (type, 0. moco). 



1864. Liolepisma Peters, Mon. Ber. Berlin Akad. Wiss., 18(i4, p. 387 (emenda- 

 tion). 



The geniLs, as here understood, is somewhat more restricted than 

 Boulenger' s section of the comprehensive genus Lygosoma liaving the 

 same name. The species belong to the Old World, except one which 

 occurs also in North America. This is the only species which occurs 

 in the territory embraced in tliis work. 



LEIOLOPISMA LATERALEb (Say). 



1823. Scincns latcmlis Say, in Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., II, p. 324 (ty7)e-locality, 

 t)ankof the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and New- 

 Orleans, Louisiana). — Lygosoma lateralis Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. 

 Gen., V, 1839, p. 719. — L. laterale Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, 

 1885, p. 263 (southern North America; Ningpo, and Szechuen, China); 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 162 (Kuatun, Prov. Fokien). — Leiolo- 

 pisma latrmle .Jordan, Man. Vertehr. Anim. North. U. S., 8th ed., 1899, 

 p. 201. 



1825. Srmc»s unicolor Harlan, Journ. Phila. Acad. Sci., V, Pt. 1, p. 156 (type- 

 locality, "Southern States"); Pt. 2, 1827, p. 221. 



1838. Tiliquareevesii Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., II, Dec. 1838, p. 292 (type-locality, 

 China; types in Brit. Mus.; Reeves, collector.) 



1864. Eumeces viodestxis Guenther, Rept. Brit. India, p. 87, pi. x, hg. g (tyj)e- 

 locality, near Ningpo, China; types in Brit. Mus.). 



1878. Lygosoma nigropiinctatum Bocourt, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (6), VII, art. 16, p. 

 2 (type-locality, ^^^lampoa, China; types in Paris Mus.; Doctor Vesco, 

 collector) . 



1888. Lygosoma (Liolepisma) laterale var. modesta Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. 

 Naturf. Ges., 1888, Abhandl., p. 187 (Napier Isl.); 1894, p. 145 (Chapu, 

 near Ningpo). 



"From Af.io<;, smooth; Xorcidiua, covering, envelope, 

 ft Signifying lateral ; r<>f<>rring to the dark lateral l)and. 



