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twenty-six rows of scales encircling middle of body. 

 Ear-opening about size of an abdominal scale and 

 feebly denticulate anteriorly. In old specimens of this 

 skink, as in other species, the temporal regions become 

 more or less swollen. 



The adult is brownish olive above, slightly bronzed, or 

 faintly washed with red, without traces of longitudinal 

 lines. The dorsal scales are edged with darker brown, 

 and often, especially toward the tail, show central spots 

 of verdigris green. The tail is greenish or grayish 

 yellow. The limbs are colored like the back. The entire 

 head and more or less of the neck are bright poppy red 

 slightly tinged with carmine. This color is brightest just 

 behind the ear-opening, sometimes slightly mixed with 

 olive on top of the head. The lower surfaces, behind 

 the red of the throat, are dull yellowish white. 



The head and back of the smallest specimen are dark 

 seal brown, darkest on the margins of the scales, with 

 four longitudinal light lines. The lower line on each 

 side is indistinct, hardly to be distinguished from the 

 coloration of the ventral surfaces, except between the 

 ear and the fore limb. The upper pair of light lines are 

 broader than in E. skiltonianus and are separated by 

 only two rows of scales. They are white only on the 

 head, being overlaid with bronze posteriorly. The limbs 

 are olive, darkest on the margins of the scales. The 

 tail is bluish gray with some bronze and greenish tints 

 near its base. The lower surfaces are creamy white, 

 grayish on the belly. 



A somewhat larger specimen (second in table of 

 measurements) is sepia above, with traces of the upper 

 pair of light lines on the neck but disappearing about 

 fifteen millimeters behind the head. The red of the 



