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Range. — Atlantic slopes in central Veracruz and in the headwaters 

 of the Rio Papaloapam in Oaxaca. Recorded from Veracruz: San 

 Jos6 de Gracia; Oaxaca: Cuicatlan. 



SCINCELLA GEMMINGERI GEMMINGERI (Cope) 



Oligosoma gemmingeri Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, p. 180. 



Lygosoma (Mocoa) Gemmingeri, Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique. . . . 

 fitudes sur les reptiles, livr. 7, 1881, pp. 449-450. 



Leiolopisma gemmingeri, Taylor, Copeia, 1937, pp. 7-8. — Smith, Journ. Washing- 

 ton Acad. Sci., vol. 39, 1949, pp. 40, 41. 



Leiolopisma gemmingeri gemmingeri, Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull, vol. 34, 

 1950, p. — . 



Lygosoma laterale (part), Boulenger, Catalogue of the lizards in the British 

 Museum, vol. 3, 1887, p. 263. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. No. 6331, four cotypes; Frangois Sumichrast 

 collector. 



Type locality. — Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Range. — Eastern Hidalgo, central and southern Veracruz, and 

 Oaxaca south to Tehuantepec, on the slopes of the plateau and in 

 lowlands. Recorded only from Veracruz: Tequeyutepec, La Perla, 

 Rio Verde, Jalapa, Orizaba; Hidalgo; Zacualtipan (possibly referable 

 to L. g. forbesorum) ; Oaxaca: Ixcuintepec, Tres Cruces, San Jos6 

 Manteca, 17 miles north of Niltepec, Cafetal Concordia. 



SCINCELLA GEMMINGERI FORBESORUM (Taylor) 



Leiolopisma forbesorum Taylor, Copeia, 1937, pp. 8-11. 



Leiolopisma gemmingeri forbesorum, Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 34, 

 1950, p. — . 



Type.— EUT-HMS No. 10043, E. H. Taylor collector. 



Type locality. — La Placita, Hidalgo, 8 miles south of Jacala, elevation 

 7,000 feet. 



Range. — Known only from higher mountains of Hidalgo, in the 

 vicinity of the type locality. 



SCINCELLA LATERALE (Say) 



Scincus lateralis Say, in Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, vol. 2, 1823, 

 p. 234. 



Leiolopisma laterale, Jordan, Manual of the vertebrates of the northern United 

 States, ed. 8, 1899, p. 324.— Cope, Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), 

 pp. 622-624, fig. 123.— Smith, Handbook of lizards, 1946, pp. 337-340, pi. 92. 



Scincella laterale, Mittleman, Herpetologica, vol. 6, 1950, p. 19. 



Type.— U.S.N.M. No. 3152. 



Type locality. — Mississippi River, below Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



Range. — New Jersey and southward to the Gulf and to central 

 Coahuila, excluding the lower Rio Grande Valley. Reported from 

 Coahuila: Nogales (Sabinas River near Miizquiz). 



