290 ANGUID^. 



The adpressed limbs meet in specimen «, not in the two others*. 

 Olive-brown, with transverse series of more or less confluent brown 

 spots ; the brown spots more crowded on the sides of the neck. 



millim. millira. 



Total length 295 Fore limb 38 



Head 31 Hind limb 52 



Width of head .... 23 Tail 140 



Body 124 



Jamaica ; San Domingo ? 



a. Ad. W. Indies. (Type.) 



b. Ad. ? Jamaica. R. Reward, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad.? ? 



8. Diploglossus occiduus. 



Celestas occiduus, part.. Gray, Cat. p. 117. 



macrolepis, Graij, I.e. p. 118. 



Shane, Jam. ii. p. 334, pi. 273. fig. 9. 

 Lacerta occidua, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 288. 

 Scincus galhva^p, Daucl. Rept. iv. p. 239. 



fossor, Merr. Tent. p. 74. 



Tiliqua occidua. Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1839, p. 292. 

 Diploglossus shawii, Dum. 4* Bihr. v. p. 590. 

 Celestas occiduus, Cope, Troc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 124. 

 Diploglossus (Celestus) occiduus, part., Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Max., 

 Kept. p. 385. 



Lateral teeth with subspherical crowns in the adult. Ear- 

 opening at least as large as the ej-e-opening ; a large azygos prte- 

 frontal, broader than and in contact with the entire anterior border 

 of the frontal, in contact on each side with the largest loreal, and 

 separated from the rostral by two pairs of shields ; frontal not more 

 than once and a half as long as broad ; parietal on each side sepa- 

 rated from the frontal and supraoculars by two or three shields ; 

 occipital larger than interparietal ; nasal separated from rostral ; a 

 postnasal and two or three loreals, second largest ; rostral broader 

 than the mental ; the suture between the seventh and eighth or 

 eighth and ninth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye ; 

 four or five large chin-shields on each side, first or first two in 

 contact with the lower labials. Body moderately elongate, roundish- 

 subquadrangular. Forty-six to fifty scales round the middle of the 

 body ; dorsals finely striated and with a more or less distinct obtuse 

 keel. Limbs nearlj^ meeting when adpressed ; digits rather short ; 

 fourth toe considerably longer than third ; claws exposed. Tail 

 strongly compressed ; caudal scales not keeled. Brownish above, 

 with dark brown spots or cross bands. 



* Probably a sexual difference. 



