ON WEST INDIAN REPTILES. 



SCINCID^E. 

 BY SAMUEL CARMAN. 



MABUIA SLOANII Gray, 1845. 



Supranasals separated behind the rostral ; parietals in 

 contact behind the interparietal ; two pairs of broad nu- 

 chals ; four supraorbitals ; four labials in front of the sub- 

 orbital, sometimes five; scales smooth, in thirty rows 

 around the body ; fifty-four to fifty-five from chin to vent 

 in the mesial row. 



Jamaica. 



MABUIA NITIDA, sp. n. 



Supranasals in contact ; parietals in contact ; two pairs 

 of nuchals ; four supraorbitals, sometimes three ; four su- 

 praciliaries ; five labials in front of the snborbital, some- 

 times four ; scales smooth, in thirty rows, sixty to sixty- 

 three from chin to vent. Tail one and one-half times the 

 length of head and body. 



Olive, bronzed ; a brownish band from nostril to hip is 

 edged with an indistinct baud of lighter above and below ; 

 a few, angular small spots of brown, with white lateral 

 edges, on back and limbs. 



Porto Rico ; San Domingo. 



MABUIA LUCLE, sp. n. 



Suprauasals in contact ; parietals in contact ; one to two 

 pairs of nuchals ; four supraorbitals ; four labials in front 



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