Vou. III] VAN DENBURGH—REPTILES—CHINA, JAPAN, FORMOSA 237 
b—Scales around middle of body usually 26, often 28; dark lateral 
band with very definite lower border; frontal in contact with 
frontonasal; North America. 
L. laterale laterale. 
b?—Scales round middle of body 28 to 34, rarely 26; dark lateral 
band usually without definite lower border; frontal usually in 
contact with frontonasal; China and Tsushima. 
L. laterale reevesii. 
a’.—Scales on back fewer, average fewer than 65 in a row between parie- 
tals and backs of thighs, average fewer than 40,0n back between 
insertions of limbs; 
bb.—Frontal usually in contact with frontonasal; scales around middle 
of body usually 28, often 26, rarely 30; scales in a row between 
parietals and backs of thighs 53 to 65, average 57.6; most fre- 
quent number 65; Formosa. 
L. laterale formosensis. 
bb*—Frontal usually not in contact with frontonasal; scales around 
middle of body usually 30, often 28, rarely 32; scales in a row 
between parietals and backs of thighs 59 to 66, average 62.6, 
most frequent number 61; Ishigaki. 
L. laterale boettgeri. 
Leiolopisma laterale laterale (Say) 
A few notes on the series of twenty-three specimens before 
me may be of interest for comparison with the Asiatic forms. 
These specimens are from Texas, North Carolina and Florida. 
All have two large preanals, one azygous postmental, and 
_ the frontal in contact with two large supraoculars of each side, 
and also with the frontonasal. In six specimens examined the 
lamellae under the fourth toe are fifteen in four, and sixteen 
in two. The number of scales in a row from the parietals to 
a line joining the backs of the thighs ranges from sixty-one to 
seventy-two, the most frequent number being sixty-five and 
the average sixty-seven and eight-tenths. The scales around 
the middle of the body are twenty-six in sixteen instances, and 
twenty-eight in seven. The supralabials normally are seven, 
but may be six or eight. 
Leiolopisma laterale reevesii (Gunther) 
The single specimen (No. 26134) from Tsushima was 
caught in a thicket October 5-15, 1910. ~It has twenty-eight 
scales around the middle of the body, sixty-nine on the back 
between the parietals and a line joining the backs of the thighs, 
and forty-seven on the back between the insertions of the limbs. 
