Vor. 111] VAN DENBURGH—REPTILES—CHINA, JAPAN, FORMOSA 225 
Posterior Loreal not much 
Posterior Loreal touching two labials longer than high 
TRGASTAV EAT AGEN GO BRUTAL ER DEOL SE 44.4% 66.6% 
Other Formosan stations. .50.8% 18. % 
Bescadones ee se 70. %o 80. % 
Ghitiamicae pares were acer: 90. % 60. % 
Frontal not touching frontonasal. 
TORN bal ye RU RUDE ate Co ee REE te RE Ra i eee nae Be 33. % 
Other. Hormnosan’. stations. 290. wk fo. caved a ces 43. %o 
Tap Areravatosm Stet ea ctee tia Od ay aor ay Minee RL can mn ai Bar Pea 26.67% 
GLa RN ie ries Rae a NE Sere) MORIN chat, 60. % 
All these specimens have one postmental and no postnasal, 
upper temporal largest, and nuchals in three pairs, of which 
the first is largest. The supralabials are seven in all except one 
from Koshun, which has 6-6; one from Maru Yama, which 
has 8-8; three from Kanshirei, which have 6-7, 7-8, and 8-8; 
and two from the Pescadores, which have 6-6 and 6-7. The 
frontal touches three supraoculars in all except two from Ko- 
shun with 2-3 and 2-2, one from Kanshirei with 2-2, and one 
from the Pescadores with 2-3. All have the patch of much 
enlarged scales on the back of the thigh. 
The chief differences between these lizards may be tabu- 
lated as follows: 
a.—Usually with more than twenty-six rows of scales around middle of 
body. 
‘China. 
a*.—Usually with not more than twenty-six scales around middle of body. 
b.—Usually with twenty-six scales around middle of body. 
c.—Scales under fourth toe 15 to 18. 
Pescadores. 
c?—Scales under fourth toe 17 to 21. 
North Formosa. 
b?.—Usually with twenty-four scales around middle of body. 
Koshun, Formosa. 
Eumeces chinensis (Gray) 
Diagnosis.—Two azygous postmentals; no patch of much 
enlarged scales on back of thigh; no postnasal; about four- 
teen plates under fourth toe; twenty-six or twenty-four scales 
around middle of body; frontal usually in contact with two 
supraoculars; nuchals usually in two pairs; interparietal less 
than twice as long as broad; frontoparietals not much longer 
than broad; dorsal line covering about half the width of the 
scales of one row on each side of midline; “middorsal line in 
young not bifurcating on head.” 
