NO. 1174. 



HAWAIIAN LAND REPTILES— STE.TNEGER. 



TAxt of specimens of Leiolopisma noctua. 



Num- 

 ber. 



2:f446 

 2;i447 

 25442 

 2r)44:i 

 2.J444 



Collection. 



U. 8. N. M 



do .... 



do .... 



do.... 



do.... 



Age. 



Adult 

 ....do . 

 ....do. 

 ....do. 

 ....do. 



Locality. 



Hawaii , 



do 



Hawaii, Hilo 



do 



do 



When col- 

 lected. 



Jan., 1899 



do.... 



do.... 



From whom re- 

 cttivcd. 



H. W. Henshaw. 



do 



do 



do 



do 



807 



Komarks. 



See p. 805. 

 See p. 806. 



EMOIA' Gray. 



(FifT. 12.) 



ISlf). — KmoUi GiiAY, (Jilt. Li/. Brit. Miis., p. 9."> (typo, Mahomja atrocostattis). 

 IHol.—Einoa (jiiUAiti), I'roo. l'hil;i. Acad., 1857, p. 197; extr., p. 5 (type, E. nu/ritti). 

 lSi',2.—Evuea COPK, Proc- Phila. Acad., 1862, p. 185 (emend.). 



Eyelids well developed, movable, the lower one with an undivided 

 traiisi>areiitdisk; sui)raiiasals present; interparietal fused with fronto- 

 parietals into a lar^e sliield. 



The geographical range of this genua which corresponds nearly to 

 Boulenger's section fJmoa of his /y?/.r/o.so»<a is covered by that of its most 

 widely distributed species, namely, IJ. cyanura. 



EMOIA CYANURA2 (Lesson). 

 AZURE-TAILED SKINK. 



1830. — Scincus cifannrus Lk.sson, Zool. Voy. (UxinlHe, II, I, p. 49, pi. iv, W^. 2 (type 

 locality, Tahiti). — ICnwd cytuiiirti (jIKard, IJ. S. Kxpl. K.Kp., llcri»et. (1858), 

 p. 270. — Lyffosoma cifanitrum Uouli:ngeu, Cat. Liz. Hrit. Miis., Ill (1887), p. 

 290. 



1839. — Eumeces lessonii DtiMi'niiL and Bihron, Erp(it. Gen., V, p. 654 (substituto 

 name). — DumIiiril, Cat. Mdth. Kept. Mas. Paris (1851), p. 1.57. 



The azure-tailed skink has a very extensive range. It was first dis 

 covered in many of the Oceanian islands during the circumnavigation 

 of the world by tlie French corvette Ija Cofinille, and described by Les- 

 son from Tahitian specimens. The U. S. Exploring l^]xpedition added 

 numerous other islands to the habitat of this species. Girard mentions 

 it from Kings Island, Peacock's Island, Tahiti, Navigator and Fiji 

 groups, Tongatabu, and the Philippine Archii)elago; also from tlie 

 " Sandwich Islands." Ac(!ording to tlie record book of theU. S.National 

 Museum the exi)loring expedition obtained specimens on Mangsi Island, 

 in the Bahibac Passage, and in the Hawaiian Islands at Hilo (No. 5({.'}5, 

 II.S.N.M.) and Mauna Kea, Hawaii (No. 5029, U.S.N.M.), but these 

 have long since been lost. It seems that it was also obtained by Quoy 

 and Gaimard in the Hawaiian Archipelago,^ specimens from these being 



' From Kmo, the alleged native name of one of the sitecies in Tahiti. 



-From 7<i}dya()?, glo.ssy-blne; ovpcx, tail. 



3 Lesson, \'oy. Coi/iiille, Zoo)., II, i (1830), p. 21. 



