4. SAURESTA. — 5. PAXOLOPrs. 295 



1. Saiiresia sepoides. (Plate XIV. fig. 2.) 



Sauresia sepsoides, Gray, I. c. p. 282; Bocourt, I. c. pi. xxii. a. fig. 5. 

 Embryopus liabichii, Weinl. I. v. pi. v. tig. 1, 



Head small, not distinct from neck; ear-opening very small ; an 

 azygos pnt'liontal, broader than long, in contact with the entire 

 anterior border of the frontal, separated from the rostral by two 

 pairs of shields ; frontal a little longer than broad ; parietal on each 

 side separated from the frontal and supraorbitals by three shields ; 

 three consecutive shields between the nasal and the pneocular, the 

 second in contact with the azygos praefroutal ; infraorbital wedged 

 in between fifth and sixth upper labials ; four large chin-shields on 

 each side, first in contact with lower labials. Body elongate, sub- 

 cylindrical ; thirty-four scales round the body, dorsals and laterals 

 finely striated. Limbs very short, the front ones much shorter than the 

 head ; digits very short, claws retractile. Tail long and nearly as 

 thick as the body. Erown above, the sides closely spotted with 

 darker and separated from the dorsal region by a dark brown line, 

 which extends forwards to the canthus rostralis ; labials spotted 

 with dark brown ; lower surface yellowish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail re- Eody 48 



produced) 132 Fore limb 6 



Head 10 Hind limb 10 



Width of head .... G-5 



S. Domingo. 



a. Ad. S. Domingo. M. Sall6 [C.]. (Type.) 



5. PANOLOPUS. 



Panolopus, Cope, Pr. Ac. Philad. 18G1, p. 494. 



No lateral fold. Scaling of the back quincuncial. Supranasals, 

 nasals, first upper labial, and rostral confiuent into a large shield in 

 which, the nostril is pierced. Four limbs ; anterior without digits, 

 posterior with a rudimentary one on the inner border. Teeth 

 obtuse. 



West Indies. 



1. Panolopus costatus. 



Panolopus costatus, Cope, I. c. 



Form elongate ; body fusiform, tetragonal. Anterior extremity 

 consisting of brachium and antebrachium, as long as the commissure 

 of the mouth ; it is terminated on its inner face by a tubercle. 

 Posterior extremity as long as the distance from the rictus to the 

 axilla, consisting of femur, tibia, and tarsus ; sole tuberculous, with 

 two callosities, that on its external border much the larger ; a 

 tuberclc-likc spur on its inner. Auricular opening present, small. 



