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by Blyth and Theobald in a small separate nasal shield. The 
head plates are arranged as in Z. pavimentatus and the ear has 
from three to two lobes anteriorly. The only character of import- 
ance in which it differs from HMwmeces as defined by Wiegmann, and 
illustrated by ZL. pavimentatus, is the occurrence of the nostril be- 
tween two shields) but keeping in view Wiegmann’s statement that 
the single nasal of Z. pavimentatus results from the union of two, 
this singular difference can hardly be considered as generic. I 
therefore regard Ewrylepis as another synonym of Humeces, Wieg- 
mann, Zumeces thus defined would appear to correspond with 
Fitzinger’s* genus Mabouda which like Zumeces has a single nasal, 
a sealy eyelid and palatine teeth, and the palatine groove reaching 
forward to the eye, so that the only generic distinction that exists 
between them is the character of the nostril, but if I am correct in 
regarding that character as not of sufficient importance to separate 
Lurylepis from ELumeces, it cannot have more force when we compare 
Mabouia and Eumeces and I am therefore inclined to group to- 
gether these smooth scaled skinks with palatine teeth and scaly 
eyelids under the first proposed term J/abouia, Fitzinger. Scinecus 
which has palatine teeth is separated from Mabouia by its dilated 
toes and shovel-like muzzle. 
There is this peculiarity in the scales of the this new form that 
led Blyth to term it Lwrylepis, wz., that the scales on the 
middle of the back from on aline with the axilla as far back as on 
a line with the groin, while they have only the antero-posterior 
breadth of the scales of the sides of the back and sides, are so much 
transversely extended that each dorsal scale has the breadth of three 
of the lateral rows of scales. The middle of the back is thus covered, 
in the area defined, by a single row of narrow, hexagonal much 
transversely extended scales, The scales, between the occiput and 
the enlarged dorsal series, are of the same size as those in the sides. 
Each dorsal scale, large and small, is marked by shallow groovest 
from the number of 3 to 10, or11, the first number being re- 
stricted to the small scales and the latter occurring on the large 
scales or plates : the smaller scales have each a minute pore. If 
these grooves were brought together in pairs, they would produce 
* Neue Class, der Rept, 1826, p. 23. + D. and B. 1. c. v. p. 702, 
