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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



not separated by a postmental. Three slightly prominent granules 

 upon the superior part of anterior auricular border. Digits compressed; 

 of the posterior the fourth has twice the extent of the fifth. Sole tuber- 

 culous externally and internally; medially granular; palm tuberculous 

 posteriorly. Scales small, especially upon the sides; rows from thirty- 

 nine to forty two. Preanal plates, four; the median very large, the 

 exterior very small. Total length, 162 mm.; tail, 95 mm. 



Color above, from rusty to ashy brown, paler on the tail. A white 

 line begins at the anterior angle of the orbit, and extending above 

 the latter reaches as far as the crural region. It is margined with 

 black superiorly, and separated from that of the opposite side by eight 

 rows of scales. Beneath it the sides are black or brownish for a width 

 of three and a half scales, beneath which shade is another white line 

 extending from beneath the orbit to the groin. The dark color of the 

 sides extends upon the tail for one third its length. Tlie under surface 

 of this member, of the extremities and belly, greenish blue; throat and 

 chin yellowish. In younger specimens a light line upon each canthus 

 rostralis is analagous to those which unite and form the median dorsal 

 band in U. quinqueUneafus. There are nearly ten more rows of scales 

 in this species than in U. quinquelineatus, and there is only one mental. 

 The latter species has six preanal plates, of which the median pair is 

 not so disproportionately large; also the freuals and nasofrenal are 

 narrow and erect. 



We are informed by Mr. J. M. Jones, in his Naturalist in Bermuda, 

 that a species of "Scincus" inhabits the islands, and that it is the only 

 indigenous true reptile. He notices its resemblance to U. quinqueline- 

 atus {'■'■ S.fasciatus'''') of the United States, and gives a description of an 

 old male specimen. 



Eimieces longiro8tris Cope. 



EUMECES QUINQUELINEATUS Linnaeus. 



Eumeces quinquelineatus Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept., 1879, p. 426, pi. xxii 



E, fig. 10.— Smith, Geol. Surv. Ohio, Zool., IV, p. 650. — Peters, Mouatsb. k. 



Akad. Berlin, 1864, p. 49. 

 KumeceH fasciatus Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 45. — Bou- 



LENGER, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1887, III, p. 370. 

 Lacerta quiuqiielineata Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 12tli ed., I, 1766, p. 366.— Shaw, Geu. 



Zool., Ill, Pt. 1, 1800, p. 24.— Green, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, Pt. 



2, 1818, p. 284, pi. XVI, fig. 2. 

 Lacerta fasciata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12tli ed., 1, 1766, p. 369.— Shaw, Geu. Zool., 



IIl,Pt. 1,1800, p. 241. 

 Lace>-ta tristata Latri:ili.e, Hist. Nat. Rept., I, p. 248. 



