13. EUMECK3. 375 



12. Eumeces chineasis. 



Plestiodon pulchrum, Gray, Cat. p. 92. 



chineusis. Gray, I. c. 



Tiliqua cliinensis, Gray, Ann. N. 11. ii. 1838, p. 289. 

 Plestiodon siiiense, Dum. S^ Bibr. v. p. 704. 



puk-lii'um, DiiDi. ■S' Bibr. p. 710. 



Tiliqua rufo-guttata, Cantor, Ann. cV May. N. II. ix. 1842, p. 482. 

 Mabouia cliinensis, part., Gi'nith. liept. Brit. lad. p. 83. 

 Eumeces sinensis, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept, p. 423. 



Head small ; snout short, obtuse. Nasal small ; no postnasal ; 

 anterior loreal iu contact with the first labial and the frontonasal ; 

 four supraoculars, the two anterior in contact with the frontal ; 

 parietals entirely separated by the interparietal ; usually two pairs 

 ofnuchals; sixth or seventh iijipcr labial the largest ; ear-opening 

 as large as a dorsal scale, witli two or three more or less distinct 

 obtuse lobules ; two azygos postmentals. Usually 24, sometimes 

 2G, scales round the body, subequal. The limbs, when pressed 

 against the body, overlap iu the young, meet or fail to meet in the 

 adult ; the length of the hind limb in the adult enters twice and 

 three fifths to thrice and one fourth in the length from snout to 

 vent. A median series of transversely cnlaigcd subcaudals. Young 

 dark brown above, with three longitudinal light bands on the back, 

 the median broadest and not bifurcating anteriorly ; sides with light 

 spots. Adult olive above, uniform or with a more or less regular 

 lateral dark brown band ; the dorsal scales sometimes edged with 

 blackish ; lower surfaces yellowish white. 



millim. millira. 



Total length 210 Tore limb 24 



Head 18 Hind limb 32 



Width of head 15 Tail 110 



Body 82 



China. 



A. Michie, Esq. [P.]. 



Dr. Cantor. (Type of 



Tiliqua rufo-guttata.) 

 Mr. Fortune [C.j. 

 R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 

 Sir J. Bowring [P.]. 

 J. Reeves, Esq. [P.J. 



13. Eumeces tetragrammus. 



Plestiodon tetragrammus, Baird, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1858, p. 256, and 



U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Rept. p. 12. 

 Eumeces tetragrammus. Cope, Chi-ck-list N. Am. Rept. p. 45. 

 obtusirostris, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 441, pi. xxii. D. 



fig. 1. 



