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i SCINCIDE. 
Snout short, obtuse. Nasal small; no postnasal; anterior loreal 
in contact with the first labial and with the frontonasal ; posterior 
border of the interparietal in contact with the nuchals, of which 
there are one or two pairs; ear-opening with three or four obtuse 
lobules anteriorly ; two azygos postmentals. 28 scales round the 
body, subequal. The length of the hind limb is contained about 
thrice and a half in the distance from snout to vent. Subcaudal 
scales not enlarged. Olive above, with two yellowish lines on each 
side, separated by a darker band; throat and lips yellowish white, 
belly greyish. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 156 Fore limb ........ 13 
Head oss ons enn ee 11 Hind limb ........ 19 
Width of head 8 DSi ce eh egies dee eee 90 
Body® os geese aves 55 
Texas, Northern Mexicb. 
14, Eumeces pluvialis. 
Eumeces pluvialis, Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 17, 1880, p. 19. 
No postnasal; anterior loreal reaching the frontonasal; five 
supraoculars ; a single postmental. Scales in 26 longitudinal rows. 
The limbs overlap when pressed against the body. Blackish olive 
above, malachite-green below; two narrow green lateral bands 
separated from each other by a black band; sometimes a faint 
trace of a pale vertebral line with dark borders. 
Mobile, Alabama. 
15. Eumeces anthracinus. 
Plestiodon anthracinus, Batrd, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) i. 1860, p. 204. 
Eumeces anthracinus, Cope, Check-list N. Am, Rept. p. 45. 
No postnasal; anterior loreal reaching the frontonasal; five 
supraoculars. 24 scales round the body. Upper parts dark bronze, 
with four narrow longitudinal yellow lines on the body, and on each 
side a broad band of anthracite-black ; head red in the adult; lower 
surfaces yellowish white. 
Total length 140 millim., tail 83. 
Pennsylvania to Texas. 
16. Eumeces brevilineatus. 
Eumeces brevilineatus, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus, no. 17,1880, p. 18, 
No postnasal; anterior loreal reaching frontonasal; a single 
postmental. Scales in 26 longitudinal rows. Hind limb twice and 
a half in the length from snout to vent, meeting the fore limb when 
both are adpressed. Colour plumbeous above, light olive below; a 
light band extends along the upper lip to a short distance behind 
