294 SCINCIDiE. 



J'luprepes samoensis, Steindachn. Novara, Sept. p. 44. 



(Euprepes) resplendena, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1877, p. 416. 



Habit lacertiform : the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the fore limb is contained once to once and one third in the distance 

 between axilla and groin. Snout usually long and pointed, much 

 depressed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Nostril pierced between three small shields — a nasal, a postnasal, 

 and a supranasal ; frontonasal as long as broad, forming a broad 

 suture with the rostral ; prasfrontals usually forming a median 

 suture ; frontal about as long as but a little narrower than the 

 frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 

 four supraoculars ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals 

 fused into a single large shield ; interparietal distinct, small ; parietals 

 forming a median suture behind the latter shield ; a pair of nuchals 

 and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; sixth or seventh, or 

 seventh and eighth, labials below the eye. Ear-opening moderately 

 large, oval, larger than the transparent palpebral disk, with a few 

 very small obtuse lobules anteriorly. 30 to 34, rarely 36, scales 

 round the middle of the body, all smooth or dorsals feebly quinque- 

 carinate ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Marginal praeanals 

 slightly enlarged. The hind limb reaches the axilla or not quite so 

 far. Digits elongate, slender, somewhat flattened at the base, 

 strongly compressed at the end : subdigital lamellas smooth, 50 to 

 64 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half to once and three 

 fourths the length of head and body. Coloration very variable. 

 Upper surfaces brown, olive, or grass-green, uniform or with large 

 or small blackish spots or cross bands : sometimes an ill-defined 

 dark lateral band : some specimens with light longitudinal shafts 

 on the back ; lower surfaces yellowish or greenish, uniform or dotted 

 with brown. 



millim. milliru. 



Total length 288 Fore limb 41 



Head 2Q Hind limb 55 



Width of head .. . 16 Tail 170 



Body 92 



New Hebrides, Fiji, Friendly, and Samoa Islands. 



