880 



SCINCID^. 



23. Eumeces lyuxe. 



Scincus quadrilineatus, var., Wie(/m. Isis, 1828, p. 373. 



Euprepes lynxe, Wieyin. Ilerp. Mex. p. 3G. 



Eumeces lynxe, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., liept. p. 437, pi. xxii. E. 



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furcirostris, Cope, Pi-oc. Am. Fhilos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 169. 



Head small ; snout short, obtuse. JN^asal small ; uo postnasal ; 

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

 four supraoculars, second and third in contact Avith the frontal, first 

 very small, sometimes united with the first supraciliary ; parietals 

 entirely separated by the interparietal ; two pairs of nuchals ; seventh 

 upper labial largest : car-opening smaller than a dorsal scale, with 

 one or two more or less indistinct lobules ; a single postmental. 22 

 or 24 scales round the middle of the body ; the scales of the two 

 median longitudinal dorsal series a little broader than the others. 

 The length of the hind limb is contained thrice to thrice and one 

 third in the length from snout to vent ; the limbs do not meet when 

 pressed against the body. A series of transversely enlarged sub- 

 caudals. Brown above, with a black lateral band, edged above and 

 below with a yellowish line ; a yellow line on the nape, bifurcating 

 on the frontal and joining the lateral lines on the canthus rostralis ; 

 throat and lips yellowish, belly bluish grey : tail bluish. 



24. Eumeces onocrepis. 



Plistodon ouocrepis, Cope, 2)id 4- S/vZ Ann. Bcp. Peahody Acad. 1871, 



p. 82. 

 Eumeces onocrepis, Cope, Check-list N. A?n. Jiept. p. 45, 



No postnasal : three supraoculars, the anterior longer than the 

 other two ; a pair of nuchals : two azygos postmentals. 22 scales 

 round the body, of nearly equal size. The length of the hind limb 

 is contained a little more than thrice in the length from snout to 

 vent : the limbs do not meet when pressed against the body. 

 Coloration very similar to that of E. brevirontris. 



From snout to vent 39 millim. 



Florida. 



