ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 

 8CLNCIDJE. 



BY SAMUEL GASMAN. 



Mabuia sloanii Gray, 1845. 

 Suprauasala separated behind the rostral ; parietals in 



contact behind the interparietal ; two pair.-; of broad mi- 

 chals; four supraorbitals; four labials in front of the sub- 

 orbital, sometimes five; scales smooth, in thirty rows 

 around the body ; fifty-four to fifty-five from chin to vent 

 in the mesial row. 

 Jamaica. 



Mabuia nitida, sp. n. 



Supranasals in contact; parietals in contact : two pairs 

 of nuchals ; four supraorbitals, sometimes three ; four su- 

 praciliaries ; five labials in front of the suborbital, some- 

 times four; scales smooth, in thirty rows, sixty to sixty- 

 three from chin to vent. Tail one and one-half times the 

 length of head and body. 



Olive, bronzed : a brownish band from nostril to hip is 

 edged with an indistinct band of lighter above and below; 

 a few, angular small spots of brown, with white lateral 

 edges, on back and limbs. 



Porto Rico: San Domingo. 



Mabuia luci.e, sp. n. 



Supranasals in contact ; parietals in contact : one to two 

 pairs of nuchals ; four supraorbitals ; four labials in front 



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