46 NORTH AMERICAN BATRACHIA AND RKPTIMA. 



basal ones tAiberciilous ; color dirty white; head yellowish above. 

 Florida. 



Family SCINCID^. 



Nasal plate single, ungrooved, nostril in the center; rostral 

 erect, triangular ; scales smooth ; limbs present; toes compressed, 

 five on each foot. 



Palate toothless; supranasal plate none; lower eyelid 

 with a transparent disk; ear large, circular, entirely 



exposed Oligosoma. 



Palate toothed; supranasal plates two; lower eyelid 

 scaly ; limbs strong ; ear dentate in front Eameces. 



Genus Oligosoma, Grd. 



81. O. later ale ^ (Say.) Grd. Ground Lizard. Head short; 

 body and tail long ; color above chestnut, with a black lateral line 

 from snout to near tip of tail ; beneath neck silvery -white ; abdo- 

 men yellowish ; tail blue; limbs weak. Austro riparian region; 

 South Carolina. 



Genus Eumeces, Wieg. 



82. E. septentrionalis^ ij^*^-) Cope. Northern Skink. One 

 postnasal plate, not separating the .internasals and postfrontals ; 

 color above olive ; with four equidistant and ecpial dark stripes, 

 covering two half rows of scales ; two narrow white lateral lines 

 traversing the centers of a single row of scales, margined by 

 black ; upper lateral stripes separated by six rows of scales ; be- 

 neath greenish. Minnesota, Nebraska, and WisGonsin. (Hoy.) 



83. E. egregius^ (Bd.) Cope. Floridan Skink. One post- 

 nasal plate, separating postfrontal and internasals; four upper 

 labials; two central dorsal rows of scales largest; ear very small; 

 color above reddish-ash, with two white lines on each side, mar- 

 gined with dusky ; sometimes a third; each on the center of a 

 single row of scales ; upper lateral lines separated by two plain 

 rows of scales. Florida. 



84. E. onocrepis^ Cope. Frontal in contact with vertical; 

 postfrontals not in contact medially; superciliaries three, anterior 

 longest; superior labials eight ; dorsal scales equal; color above 

 dark brown, darkest on sides and lightest on tail; two narrow 

 light lines on each side of head and neck, none on body or tail ; 

 below white or straw color. Florida. 



85. E. anthracinus^ (Bd.) Cope. Coal Skink. Color above 

 dark bronze, with four ^^ellow lateral stripes, between and above 



