13. EUMEcrs. 381 



The following species appears to be closely allied to the pre- 

 ceding : — 



Plestlodon er/rer/ius, Baird, Proc. Ac, Philad. 1858, p. 250. — 

 Eumeces er/ref/ius. Cope, Check-list, p, 45. 



" One postnasal* plate : postfrontal and intcniasals separated by 

 the postnasal. Pour upper labials. Ears very small. Two central 

 dorsal rows largest. Body cylindrical. Color reddish-ash, with 

 two or three white lines on each side, margined with dusky, some- 

 times a third : all these along the centres of single rows of scales. 

 Upjier lateral lines separated by two plain rows. Body encii'clcd by 

 about 22 rows of scales." 



P'lorida. 



25. Eumeces quadrilineatus. 



Plestiodon quadrilineatum, Bh/tli, Joiirn. As. Soc. Betir/. xx'ii. 185.% 



p. 052. 

 Ktiiueces quadrivirgatus, Jfalloto. Proc. Ac. PJiilad. 1800, p. 502. 

 Mabouia quadrilineata, Giinth. Rcpt. Brit, Ind. p. 82, pi. x. fig. e. 

 Eumeces quadrilineatus, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Me.v., Rept. p. 423, 



pi. xxii. D. fig. 5. 



Snout short, obtuse. Nasal small, followed by a small postnasal ; 

 anterior loreal in contact with the frontonasal ; four supraoculars ; 

 parietals meeting behind the interparietal ; three pairs of uuchals : 

 seventli upper labial largest ; ear- opening rather small, without 

 distinct lobules ; two azygos postmentals. 20 (or 22) scales round 

 the middle of the body, those of the two vertebral series much 

 broader than the others. The length of the hind limb is contained 

 twice and a half in the length from snout to vent ; the limbs overlap 

 when pressed against the body. A median series of transversely 

 enlarged subcaudals. Black above, with two yellowish longitudinal 

 lines ou each side, the upper beginning on the tip of the snout. 



niillini. milliin. 



Total length 140 Fore limb 15 



Head 11 Hind limb 22 



Width of head 8 Tail 85 



Body 44 



Southern China, Cochinchina. 



a, h. Ad. Hongkong. Sir J. Bowring [P.]. 



/. e. no postnasal. 



