74 NOTICE OF SOME NEW AND RARE SPECIES OF SCINCIDA. 
differ from E. Spixii in the greater breadth of the scales, there being but twenty-four rows, 
and the broader white lateral band on each side occupying the half of each of the two ad- 
joining rows of scales. 
SUB-GEN. EUPREPIS WAGLER. 
Char. Nostrils in the posterior border of the nasal plate; two supero-nasals; palate with 
a triangular notch, more or less deep; pterygoid teeth; scales carinated. 
Kuprepis striata,* nob. Syn. Euprepis striata. Proceed. A. N.S., vol. vii. p. 98. 
Char. Lower eyelid scaly; colour biackish above, tinged with brown; scales upon back 
and tail, white spotted; back presenting alternate lines of black and white spots; body 
robust, 33 rows of scales, tricarinate upon back and sides. 
Description. Nostrils in the posterior part of nasal plate, which is large; supero-nasals 
large, contiguous, much broader in front; inter-nasal much broader than long, its inferior 
and lateral margin in contact with the anterior frenal; two fronto-nasals; a frontal, long, 
much broader anteriorly, where it presents three fronts, in contact with the inter-nasal and 
fronto-nasals; two fronto-parietals much larger than the fronto-nasals; an inter-parietal; 
two large parietals; no occipitals, or scales larger than the rest behind the parietals; a 
rather large freno-nasal; two frenals, the anterior, more narrow and higher than the pos- 
terior; two freno-orbitar, the first much larger than the latter, and more or less quadrilateral 
in shape; there are seven supra-labials; the fourth or fifth, as the case may be, is larger 
than the rest, and oblong quadrilateral; four large supra-ciliary scales; auricular openings 
circular, with three small scales in front; the lower eyelids covered with scales; tongue 
narrow in front, not notched anteriorly, broad behind, where it presents a deep notch; 
covered with scales; smaller in-front, larger behind; palate notched posteriorly, not fur- 
rowed; no pterygoid or palatine teeth; teeth notched longitudinally; 44 in the upper jaw 
in the specimen examined, more or less quadrangular in shape, 32 in the lower; the ante- 
rior teeth in the lower jaw somewhat longer than those which immediately follow; body 
robust; 33 rows of scales; those upon the back and sides five carinated, the middle, and 
two lateral carinz: shorter and more narrow than the others; scales upon upper and lateral 
parts of tail and extremities carinated ; posterior margin of scales upon back and sides tri- 
dentate, the denticulations corresponding to the posterior extremities of the three middle 
carinse; scales of abdomen smooth, more or less rounded posteriorly, very finely striated, 
the two middle, the most distinct; third and fourth finger about equal length; second toe 
longer than the first; first toe much larger than the fifth; six or seven preeanal scales; 
* From the alternate lines of black and white along the back. 
