196 THE REPTILES OF EGYPT. 
EUMECES. 
Eumeces, "Wiegm. Arch. f. Nat. 1835, ii. p. 288. 
Limbs well developed ; digits 5 — 5, more or less cylindrical or compressed, with 
transverse lamellae below, and not serrated laterally. Nostril in a single nasal, occa- 
sionally vertically divided in two. Eyelids well developed, scaly. Ear distinct ; 
tympanum deeply sunk. Supranasals present ; postnasal present or absent ; prse- 
frontals, frontoparietals, and interparietal distinct. Palatine bones not in contact 
in the middle line of the palate ; pterygoids toothed. Lateral teeth conical or 
spheroidal. 
Eumeces schxeideki, Daud. (Plate XXY.) 
Lacerta rufescens, part., Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. 1802, p. 285. 
Scincus schneideri, Daud. Hist. Rept. iv. 1802, p. 291 ; Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. de l'Egypte, 
Hist. Nat. i. ? 1827, p. 135, pi. iii. fig. 3. 
Scincus cepedii, Merr. Syst. Aruph. 1820, p. 71. 
Scincus pavimentatus, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1827, p. 138, pi. iv. 
fig. 4. 
Scincus cyprius, Cuv. Reg. An. nouv. ed. ii. 1829, p. 62. 
Tiliqua cyprinus, Gray, Syn. Griffith's An. Kingd. ix. 1831, p. 68. 
Eumeces pavimentatus, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. 1834, p. 36; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1864, p. 48; 
Blani'ord, East. Persia, Zool. ii. 1876, p. 387; Boettger, Zeitschr. ges. Nat. (Giebel) 1877, 
p. 288 ; Ber. Senck. nat. Ges. 1879-80, p. 183 ; Kessler, Trans. St. Petersb. Soc. of Nat. viii. 
1878, Suppl. p. 177; Bedr. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1879, no. 3, p. 27; Tristram, West. 
Palestine, Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 152. 
Plestiodon aldrovandii, part., Dum. & Bibr. v. 1839, p. 701; ? Guichenot, Explor. Sc. Alg., 
Sc. Phys. Zool. 1850, p. 17; A. Dum. Cat. Rept. Paris Mus. 1851, p. 164; De Pilippi, 
Viagg. in Persia, 1865, p. 354 ; Steindachner, Unger & Kotschy's Insel Cypern, 1865, p. 573; 
Gasco, Viagg. Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 109; Lortet, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, iii. 1883, 
p. 187. 
Euprepis princeps, Eichw. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, ii. 1839, p. 303; Faun. Casp.-Cauc. 1841, p. 93, 
pi. xvi. figs. 1-3. 
Plestiodon auratus, Gray, Cat. Liz. B.M. 1845, p. 91; Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 489. 
Mabouia aurata, Gthr. Rept. Brit. Ind. 1864, p. 82. 
Eumeces pavimentatus, var. syriaca, Boettger, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 120. 
Eumeces schneideri, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 383; Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. v. 1889, p. 101 ; 
