294 : SCINCIDZ. 
Euprepes samoensis, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 44. 
—— (Enuprepes) resplendens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1877, p. 416. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once to once and one third in the distance 
between axilla and groin. Snout usually long and pointed, much 
depressed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 
Nostril pierced between three small shields—a nasal, a postnasal, 
and a supranasal; frontonasal as long as broad, forming a broad 
suture with the rostral; prefrontals usually forming a median 
suture; frontal about as long as but a little narrower than the 
frontoparietal, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; 
four supraoculars; seven or eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals 
fused into a single large shield; interparietal distinct, small ; parietals 
forming a median suture behind the latter shield ; a pair of nuchals 
and a pair of temporals border the parietals; sixth or seventh, or 
seventh and eighth, labials below the eye. Ear-opening moderately 
large, oval, larger than the transparent palpebral disk, with a few 
very small obtuse lobules anteriorly. 30 to 34, rarely 36, scales 
round the middle of the body, all smooth or dorsals feebly quinque- 
carinate ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. Marginal preeanals 
slightly enlarged. The hind limb reaches the axilla or not quite so 
far. Digits elongate, slender, somewhat flattened at the base, 
strongly compressed at the end; subdigital lamelle smooth, 50 to 
64 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half to once and three 
fourths the length of head and body. Coloration very variable. 
Upper surfaces brown, olive, or grass-green, uniform or with large 
or small blackish spots or cross bands; sometimes an ill-defined 
dark lateral band; some specimens with light longitudinal shafts 
on the back ; lower surfaces yellowish or greenish, uniform or dotted 
with brown. 
: millim. millim 
Total length...... 288 Fore limb ........ 41 
Head, . ascends oes 26 Hind limb ........ 55 
Width of head ... 16 Wail iassiueiaek eects 170 
BOO se siecsnteeidincd 92 
New Hebrides, Fiji, Friendly, and Samoa Islands. 
a-c, Ad. Valna I., Banks’s Islands. 
d. Tgr. Sandwich I., N. Hebrides. Dr. Corrie [C.]. 
e-g. Ad, & hgr. Erromango. ; 
h. Her. Fiji Islands. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
it. Ad. & her. Fiji Islands. Godeffroy Museum. 
m-g. Ad. & her. Fiji Islands. E. A, Liardet, Esq. [P.]. 
r, Ad. Fiji Islands. Museum of Economic 
Geology. 
s-t, uu. Ad. Kandavu, Fiji. H.M.S. ‘Challenger,’ 
v. Her. Levuka, Fiji. ELMS. ¢ Alert.’ 
w. Her. Ovalau, Fiji. J. Macgillivray, Esq. 
C.}. 
w-a. Ad. Tongatabu. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P. ]. 
B. Ad. Samoa Islands, Rev. J. Powell [P. |. 
