656 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



The rows of scales traversed centrally by the light stripes have the 

 edges dusky. The upper stripe passes through the center of the second 

 row, the long lower one through that of sixth. The Intermediate line, 

 not always appreciable, and confined to the anterior half of body, 

 traverses the center of the fourth row. The lateral scales between 

 these stripes are dusky behind ; those on the back are plain. The lower 

 edge of the posterior upper labials is spotted with dusky; the white 

 stripe on the labials very distinct from the snout and suffused above with 

 blackish. The anteorbitals and postorbitals are each white and black. 

 There are no distinct lines on the legs. The young are probably 

 entirely black between the lateral stripes. The tail has dusky lines on 

 the sides, but no white ones, nor is there blue anywhere. 



This species is more slender and elongated than any of its allies with 

 a single nasal, and is easily distinguished by color and the separation 

 of the upper lateral stripes by two rows of scales. The fusion of the 

 third and fourth large supraorbital plates, counting from behind, is a 

 striking peculiarity. The dorsal intervals of the stripes is seemingly 

 greater than the lateral. 



Eumeces egregius Baird. 



/^„,.„, „! Number 



CataJogue „f gpeci- 

 I mens. 



4U2 



3127 



12002 



19980 



19981 



Locality. 



Key West, Florida. . 

 Indian Key, Florida 

 Georgian.% ITlorida. . , 



Eustis, Florida 



do 



From whom received. 



W.Thomas. 

 G. Wurdeman. 

 W. Witttield. 

 S. R. Sloan. 

 Do. 



EUMECES SEPTENTRIONALIS Baird. 



Eumeces septentrionalis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. and Rept., 1875, p. 44. 

 Plestiodon septentrionalis Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 256; Rept. 

 U. S. Expl. Surv. Pac. R. R., Pt. 4, X, 1859, p. 18, pi. xxiv, fig. 2. 



Body and neck cylindrical, stout; head small, conical, and depressed. 

 Interfrontonasal plate small, rhomboidal, embraced between the supra- 

 nasals and prefrontals, which are broadly in contact. A single post- 

 nasal (about equal to the nasal), equal in height and half the length of 

 the loreal. Seven upper la,bials, two mentals, limbs short, the hinder 

 reaching forward less than halfway to the fore legs and contained 

 three and one half to four times in head and body. From nose to cen- 

 ter of insertion of fore leg is half way from this to hinder leg (in one 

 specimen to anus). Head (to ear) contained between five to six times 

 in head and body. Fifth hind toe a little shorter than second ; the free 

 portion of longest toe equal half the side of head. There are twenty- 

 eight rows of scales around the body, the lateral quite parallel with 

 the dorsal and fifty-nine scales from head to tail. Tail one and three- 

 fourths times the body. 



General color above light olive green with two lateral white stripes 



