THE REPTILES OF BERMUDA. 
SAURIA.—Lizards. 
EUMECES LONGIROSTRIS Cope. 
TESTUDINATA.—Turtles. 
SPHARGIS CORIACEA Gray. Leather Back. 
CHELONIA MYDAS Schw. Green. 
THALASSOCHELYS CAOUANA Fitz. Loggerhead. 
ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA Fitz. Hawksbill. 
Five species of reptiles are all that are known to be found on the 
Bermudas. Only one of the five, Humeces longirostris,* can be claimed 
by these islands as their own. This one is a long-bodied, short-limbed, 
red-faced little scinc, which loves the sunshine go brilliantly reflected in 
the bronzed tint of the smooth glossy scales, which has colors so subdued 
*EUMECES LONGIROSTRIS. 
Plestiodon longirostris Cope, 1861, Pr. Ac. Phil., 313. 
Eumeces longirostris Cope, 1875, Check List, 45. 
Eumeces longirostris Goode, Am. Jour. Sci. 1877, 290. 
Body moderately stout, fusiform, depressed ; head little larger than the neck, swol- 
len at the angle of the mouth, tapering to the narrow muzzle; tail about one-sixth 
longer than the body, stout, conical, tapering to a point. Limbs short, rather stout ; 
anterior reaching the fourth labial, posterior—without the toes—extending half way 
to the axilla. Digits compressed, with strong curved nails. Eye small; lower lid 
with large scales in front of the pupil which are translucent, if not transparent. 
Mouth-cleft medium, curyed. Snout elongate, slightly swollen near the end in large 
specimens. Top of head somewhat flattened, with nineteen shields. Internasals in 
contact between anterior prefrontal and rostral. Prefrontals three, a pair in contact 
between frontal and anterior; latter broader than long, hexangular. Frontal hex- 
angular, widening forward, obtuse angled in front. Supraoculars four on each side, 
anterior small,in contact with frontal and prefrontals. A pair of small quadrangular 
parietals, separating occipitals and frontal, in contact by theirinterior angles. Inter- 
occipital elongate, narrow, wider and acute-angled forward. Posteriorly each occipi- 
talis joined by a large broad scale and laterally by an elongate temporal. Three 
plates between the angle of the eye and the nasal, anterior small. Rostral little 
broader than high, convex. Temporals 1—2, lower posterior large, semicircular mar- 
gin forward, resting upon the hinder labial. Labials eight, anterior five lower, pos- 
terior three larger, sixth and seventh in contact with the small scales covering the 
eyelid, fourth and fifth in contact with a pair of small scales below the front angle 
of the eye. Mental large, broader than long, broader than rostral. Infralabials 
eight (8—9). A broad submental (1—2) immediately behind the mental. Behind 
these there are three nearly as broad, the front pair of which arein contact. Farther 
back there are one or two elongate narrow shields touching the infralabials. Scales 
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