264 SCINCIDiE. 



q-h. Ad. NeAv Orleans. 



'i-l Ad. California (?). M. Salle [C.]. 



m. Ad. Jalapa. M. Hoege [C.]. 



Being unable to find distinctive characters to separate the following 

 Chinese Scink {L. rcevesii), I must, at least provisionally, refer it 

 to this species, with the following synonymy : — 



Iliniilia reevesii, Gray, Cat. p. 76. 

 Tiliqua reevosii, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 18.38, p. 292. 

 Eumeces reevesii, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 87, pi. x. fig. K. 



modestns, Giinth. I. c. fig. G. 



Lygosnma nigropimotatum, Bocovrt, Ann. Sc. Nat. (6) vii. 1878, 



art. 10, and Miss. Sc. Mex., Kept. pi. xxii. F. fig. 2. 

 ? Mocoa exigua, Anders. Zool. IV. Yunnan, p. 797. 



J. Eeeves, Esq. [P.]. (Types of 



Tiliqua reevesii.) 

 A. Adams, Esq. [C.]. 

 (Tvpes of Einneces modestus.) 

 J. H. Leech, Esq. [P.]. 



E. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



52. Lygosoma assatum. 



LampropLolis assatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. I'liilad. 1804, p. 179. 

 Mocoa assata, Cope, Journ. Ac. I'hilad. (2) viii. 1870, p. 115. 

 Lj'gosoma (Mocoa) assata, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 450, 

 pi. xxii. r. fig. 7. 



Body elongate ; the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the fore limb is contained twice and two thirds to twice and three 

 fourths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans])arent disk. Xostril 

 pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, 

 broadly in contact with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter 

 shield as long as tbe frontoparietal, whicb is single ; four supra- 

 oculars, second largest ; eight supraciliaries ; interparietal rather 

 large, parietals forming a suture behind it; enlarged nuchals one 

 pair, or none ; fifth or sixth upper labial below the centre of the 

 eye. Ear-opening oval, as large as the eye-opening ; no auricular 

 lobules. 26 to 30 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; 

 laterals smallest. A pair of large pra^anals. The adpressed limbs 

 fail to meet. Digits subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 

 15 to 17 under the fourth toe. Tail about once and a half the 

 length of head and body. Olive-brown above, each scale with a 

 small dark brown spot ; a more or less distinct dark brown lateral 

 band, light-edged above ; lips brown-spotted ; lovrer surfaces whitish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 115 Fore limb 12 



Head 10 Hind limb 16 



Width of head 7 Tail (reproduced) . . 60 



Body 45 



