208 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



List of specimens of Eumeces viarginatus. 



oType; description, p. 206, fig. 184. 



b P. 207. 



EUMECES CHINENSISa (Gray). 



1838. Tiliqua cMnensis Gr.\y, Ann. Nat. Hist., II, Dec, 1838, p. 289 (type- 



locality, China). — Maboida chinensis Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (3), XII, 1863, p. 225 (Tamsui, Formosa). — Eumeces chinensis Bovi,ei^g-er, 

 Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, 1887, p. 375 (Ningpo; Chusan; Si Kiang; 

 Canton; Hongkong). — ^Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf . Ges., 1894, 

 pp. 132 (Hainan), 143 (Shanghai), 146 (Dalanshau and Chinhai, near 

 Ningpo).— Stejneger, Joimi. Sci. Coll. Tokyo, XII, Pt. 3, 1898, p. 220 

 (Taipa, Formosa). 



1839. Plestiodon sinense Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., V, p. 704 (Canton; 



Paris Mus.; Gernaert, collector). 



1839. Plestiodon pidchrum Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., V, p. 710 (China). 



1842. Tiliqua nifo-guttata Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, 1842, p. 482 (type- 

 locality, Chusan; type in Bri?t. Mus.; Cantor, collector). 



Description. — Hal/grown; Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 21; 

 Taipa, Formosa; October, 1896; T. Tada, collector (fig. 1S5). Por- 

 tion of nostril visible from above consider- 

 al)ly smaller than f ronto-nasal ; supranasals 

 broadly in contact behind rostral; nostril 

 in the center of a single nasal which is 

 nearly triangular; no postnasal; first supra- 

 labial in contact with supranasal behind 

 nasal; f ronto-nasal somewhat broader than 

 long, not in contact with rostral but with 

 frontal; prefrontals smaller than f ronto-nasal, in contact with 

 anterior supraocular, upper preocidar, and anterior loreal, but not 

 with each other; anterior loreal nearly twice as high as wide, squarish, 

 in contact with first and second supralabials (on left side also with 

 third), supranasal, fronto-nasal, prefrontal, and upper preocular, 

 but not with nasal; posterior loreal low, small, not larger than 



Fig. 185.— Eumeces chinensis. 2 



X NAT. size; SlDEOrHE.\D. No. 



21, Sci. Coll. Tokyo. 



o Signifying Chinese. 



