380. SCINCIDE. 
23. Eumeces lynxe. 
Scincus quadrilineatus, var, Wiegm. Isis, 1828, p. 373. 
Euprepes lynxe, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 36. _ 
Eumeces lynxe, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 487, pl. xxii. B. 
fig. 9. 
—— furcirostris, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 169. 
Head small; snout short, obtuse. Nasal small; no postnasal ; 
anterior loreal in contact with the first labial and the frontonasal ; 
four supraoculars, second and third in contact with the frontal, first 
very small, sometimes united with the first supraciliary ; parietals 
entirely separated by the interparictal ; two pairs of nuchals ; seventh 
upper labial largest ; ear-opening smaller than a dorsal scale, with 
one or two more or less indistinct lobules ; a single postmental. 22 
or 24 scales round the middle of the body; the scales of the two 
median longitudinal dorsal series a little broader than the others. 
The length of the hind limb is contained thrice to thrice and one 
third in the length from snout to vent; the limbs do not meet when 
pressed against the body. A series of transversely enlarged sub- 
caudals. Brown above, with a black lateral band, edged above and 
below with a yellowish line; a yellow line on the nape, bifurcating 
on the frontal and joining the lateral lines on the canthus rostralis ; 
throat and lips yellowish, belly bluish grey ; tail bluish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 125 Fore limb ........ 13 
eddy ince ens sin sina Gut 11 Hind limb ........ 18 
Width of head 8 Dail. occa davaaais 68 
Body. esis vies eis8 46 
Mexico. 
a. Several spec. Jalapa, Mr. Hoege (C.]. 
24, Eumeces onocrepis. 
Plistodon onocrepis, Cope, 2nd & 38rd Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. 1871, 
p. 82. 
Eumeces onocrepis, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 45. 
No postnasal; three supraoculars, the anterior longer than the 
other two; a pair of nuchals; two azygos postmentals. 22 scales 
‘round the body, of nearly equal size. ‘he length of the hind limb 
is contained a little more than thrice in the length from snout to ~ 
vent; the limbs do not meet when pressed against the body. 
Coloration very similar to that of Z. brevirostris. 
From snout to vent 39 millim. 
Florida. 
