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dotted with livid; the head so thickly dotted as to obscure the 
ground color; sides deep livid, spotted with straw color ; beneath 
straw colored, spotted with livid—sometimes the back as well as 
sides, uniformly deep livid with minute pale yellow dots; (a dif- 
ference not depending upon age, sex or season.) Skin smooth. 
Sal. Jurida, Nob. Palatine teeth a single transverse row, form- 
ing a very obtuse angle, pointing forward ; body somewhat gran- 
ulated, sub-quadrangular; tail compressed, three fourths the 
length of the body lanceolate, sub-acute ; skin beneath the throat 
folded ; color above dark olive brown ; beneath sub-fuscus ; sides, 
tail and beneath spotted with pale yellow. 
Dimensions.—Total length 4! in.; head and neck § in.; 
head § in. wide; body 12 in.; tail 12 in.; fore legs # in.; 
hind legs { in. 
Description.—Head rather large, gibbous, short, oval; snout 
quite round before ; commissure of the jaws extends to the cen- 
tre of the eyes; eyes large, prominent; nostrils minute, sub- 
ovate ; neck thicker than the body; skin beneath plaited ; body 
thick ; the spine forms a prominent ridge; tail compressed, linear 
lanceolate, somewhat obtuse at tip, the edges obtuse ; legs short, 
but broad; toes much depressed; head above smooth, shining 
with minute pores; body and tail somewhat granulated ; color 
above very dark brown, tinged faintly with olive; beneath yel- 
lowish brown ; an irregular row of yellow spots along the sides 
and inferior part of the tail; beneath irregularly spotted with 
the same. The whole abdomen and inferior part of the sides 
appear to have a pure pale yellow ground. When viewed with 
a glass, numerous minute depressions are visible which except in 
afew spots are bounded with dark brown; Iris dusky golden. 
Perhaps a variety of Salspicta, Harl. 
Scincus dateralis, Say. var? Perhaps a distinct species. 
Description—Total length 64 in.; length of head 1} in. ; 
Width 8 in.; head and trunk 2§ in.; tail 34 in.; form of head 
ophioid ; trunk sub-quadrangular ; tail round, terete; a single 
tow of obtuse teeth in each jaw ; no palatine teeth ; tongue non- 
€xtensile, emarginate at tip, soft, free ; nostrils near the tip of the 
snout, lateral, oval, bordered by a membrane; eyes dark, a rudi- 
mentary third eye-lid ; the true lid covered with tetragonal scales ; 
tympanum a little below the surface, meatus auditorius externus 
Tz in. long, oblong oval, transverse, its outer margin serrated an- 
