12. TUIIiOLONOTTJS. 13. KDMKCES. 365 



1. Tribolonotus novae-giiineae. 



Tribolonotus novie truinc.'o, Gran, ^'^^- P- ^^l- 

 Zonurus nova) guineae, Sclileg. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Pln/^. i. 1834, 



p. 218. 

 Tribonotus novse-guinese, Dum. ^- Bihr. v. p. 360, pi. hi. 



Posterior border of head straight, armed with six points ; head- 

 shields strongly striated ; four supraocuhirs ; two pairs of pariotals, 

 posterior largest and forming a median suture behind the inter- 

 parietal; first upper labial very small, second very large, third and 

 fourth entering the orbit ; a largo azygos postmental. Tympanum 

 as large as the eye-opening. The largo bony dorsal shields form 

 eleven transverse series to sacrum inclusively, each composed of 

 four shields, those of the outer series forming a very strong, curved 

 spine ; the space between the bony shields occupied by small, soft, 

 keeled granvdes ; sides granular, with scattered small trihedral 

 tubercles ; gular and ventral scales imbricate, keeled. A pair of 

 large shields cover the pra^anal region. The hind limb reaches 

 nearly the axilla. Fore limb covered with large, imbricate, strongly 

 keeled scales, hind limb with spinose tubercles. Subdigital lamellae 

 smooth. Tail a little compressed, as long as head and body ; above 

 "with large bony tubercles alternating with cross rows of 'small 

 keeled scales ; inferiorly with cross rows of subequal, strongly keeled 

 scales. Brown, lighter inferiorly. 



millira. millim. 



Total length 156 Fore limb 27 



a. 



13. EUMECES*. 



Mabuya, part., Fitzing. N. Classif. Rept. p. 23. 



Euprepis, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 161. 



luimeces, part., Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 36. 



Eumeces, Wiegm. Arch.f. Nat. 1835, ii. p. 288; Peters, Mon. Berl. 



Ac. 1864, p. 48 ; Stoli'^^zka,Jonrn. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 121 ; 



Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 418. 

 Plestiodon, Dum. ^ Bibr. v. p. (J97 ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 90. 

 Lamprosaurus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philacl. 1852, p. 206. 

 Euryiepis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, p. 739. 

 Mabouia, Gunth, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 82. 



Palatine bones not meeting on the median line of the palate ; 



* Plestiodon multivirgatnm, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 251. Eumeces 

 multivirgatus. Cope, Check-list N. Am. Eept. p. 45. — Kansas. 



Plestiodon inornatus, Baird, Proc. Ac. Philacl. 1858, p. 256. Eumeces inor- 

 natus, Cope, /. c. — Platte-river valley. 



