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KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The Slipper v-backs, as these skinks (Scincidie) are called by the 

 En<j^lisb-speakiiio- people of the Antillean islands because of their 

 smooth, shiny surface, belong to a family of lizards widely distributed 

 over the Tropics of both hemispheres. The}' are not numerous in 

 America, however, and in the territory we are here dealing- with only 

 one species occurs. 



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Figs. 53-55.— Head-shields of Scincid lizard, cs. Chin-shields; d, disk on lower eyelid; e, car- 

 opening; /, frontal; fn, frontonasal; fp, frontoparietal; /, interparietal; il, lower labials; I, loreals; lb, 

 upper labials; m, mental; n, nasal; ne, nuchals; ]), parietals; pf, prefrontal; j»», postnasal; r, rostral; 

 gc, supraciliaries; sii, supranasal; so, supraocular; t, temporal. 



MABUYA SLOANII." (Daudin.) 



1803. Srincus sloan'u Daudix, Hist. Nat. Kept., IV, p. 287, pi. ly, fig. 2 (type 



locality not stated; type in Mus. Paris; said by Dumc>ril and Bibron 



to be from St. Thomas, collected by Eichard pere) . — Eumeces s. 



DuMERiL and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., V, 1839, p. 639 (St. Thomas). — 



DuMERiL, Cat. Meth. Rept. Mus. Paris, I, 1851, p. 156. — Mabuya s. 



BocouRT, Miss. Sci. Max., ZooL, Ptept., livr. 6, 1879, p. 401, pi. 



xxir B, figs. 3-3c (St. Thomas; fig. 36 is from the type). — Mabuia s. 



BouLENGER,Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, p. 193 (part: St. Croix) ; Jahresber. 



Naturw. Ver. Magdeburg, 1894-1896, p. 113 (]\Iona Island).— Meer- 



WARTH, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XVIII, 1901, p. 37 (Mona I.). 

 1838. TiUqua richardi Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., II, Dec. 1838, p. 292 (type locality 



St. Thomas; type in Mus. Paris; same specimen as type of aS'. sloanii 



Daudin). 

 1845. Mahouya sloanei Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 94 (locality, Jamaica, 



erroneously ; Paris Mus. ) . 

 1859. Mabouia tenea Guenther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) IV, Sept. 1859, p. 212 



(St. Croix) (not of Gray). 



1862. Mahula cnprescens Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1862, p. 186 (tyj^e locality, St. 



Thomas, W. I., coll. Riise). 



1863. Gongylus {Eumeces) agilis Reinhardt and Luetken, Vid. Middel. Naturh. 



Foren. (Copenhagen), 1862, p. 229; author' s separate, p. 77 (St. Thomas, 

 St. John,' Just V. Dyck, Mus. Copenh., Vieques, according to Riise). 

 1868. Mabuya fulglda Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1868, p. 311 (Porto Rico) (not 

 of 1862). 



« Named for Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, who, in his Voyage to the Islands Madera 

 etc., (London, 1707) described a skink from Jamaica, which Daudin believed to be 

 the same as the present species. 



