EEPTILIA. 287 



long; bronze-coloured, usually with four longitudinal darker stripes; belly 

 greenish- white ; this animal is viviparous, and is found in Spain, Italy and 

 Dalniatia. A very similar species, which has only two toes on the fore 

 feet, is met with in North Africa {Hderomeles maurUanicus DUM., Bibe.), 

 where also (at Algiers) the preceding has been found. 



b) Nostrils situated in nasal scute. 

 Hemierges Wagl. (with feet tridactylous). 



Tetradactylus Pekon, Dum., Bibr. (Comp. DuM. ct BiBR. Erpefol. v. 

 PP- 763—767)- 



Scincus Gronov, Laui?., Daud., Merr. Feet four, low, pen- 

 tadactylous (in a few posterior or anterior alone pentadactylous, 

 the others tetradactylous). Tongue emarginate at the apex, beset 

 with scaly papillce. Eyelids mobile. Teeth subulate in jaws ; 

 in most the palate edentulous. Aperture of auditory meatus in 

 all mostly distinct, an oval or oblique chink behind the angle 

 of mouth, surrounded by small scales. Tail conical. 



a) With toes round. 

 Gongylus Dum. and Bibr. (with addit. of some others ; Gongylua 

 Wagl., Eumeces Wiegm., Eux>re2:)es Wagl., Plestiodon Dum. and 

 Bibr., Lygosoma Gray, Leilepisma Dum. and Bibr., Troindole- 

 pisma Dum. and Bibr., Heteroims Fitz., Campsodactylus Dum. and 

 Bibr.). Snout conical. Tongue all scaly. Palatine teeth in some. 



Sp. Scincus hrachypus Schneid., Merr., Lygosoma brachypoda DuM., Bibr., 

 Anguis quadrupes L. and Lacerta chalcides L. (in part), Vosmaeb Afri- 

 Jcaansche gladgeschuhde wormhagedis, 1774; this small species, with very 

 short five-toed feet, is not from Africa, as Vosmaer supposed, but from the 

 Island Java. Cdvier referred this species to the genus Seps; the 

 auditory apertures are very small, and were not remarked by LlNN^DS 

 {Syst. nat. ed. 12, i. p. 390). Compare also Bloch Beschdftigungen der 

 Berlin. Gesellsch. naturforsch. Freunde, 11. 1775, s. 28 — 34, Tab. 2. 



Scincus ocellatus Daud., Merr., Gongylus ocellatus Dcm., Bibr., le 

 viahouya Lac, Quadr. ovip. etSerp. i. PL 24, Olivier Voyage dans VEmp. 

 Othoman, PI. 16, fig. i, Daud. Eept. iv. PL 56 ; Sardinia, Sicily, Algiers, 

 Egypt. Comp. G-. de Natale Ricerche anat. sullo Scinco vai-iegato, c. 2 

 Tavole, Accad. delle So. di Torino. Classe di Se. Fis. e Math. 2da Serie, 

 Tom. XIII. 1852, p. 436 and seq. 



Scincus campsodactylusudb., Campsodactylus Lamarrei DuM. and BiBR. ; 

 from the continent of the East Indies ; five toes on the fore feet, four on 

 the hind feet. In two other species conversely the fore feet are provided 

 with four toes, the hind feet with five; they form the genus Heteropu^ 

 Dum. 



