290 ANGUIDE. 
The adpressed limbs mect in specimen a, not in the two others*. 
Olive-brown, with transverse series of more or Jess confluent brown 
spots ; the brown spots more crowded on the sides of the neck. 
millim millim 
Total length ...... 295 Fore limb.......- 38 
Head ).0s..304¢ 049 31 Hind limb........ 52 
Width of head .... 23 Tall a aic agencies $e 140 
Body .oeccc an esas 124 
Jamaica; San Domingo? 
a, Ad. W. Indies. (Type. ) 
b. Ad.? Jamaica. R. Heward, Esq. [P.]. 
e. Ad.P P 
8. Diploglossus occiduus. 
Celestus occiduus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 117. 
macrolepis, Gray, l.c. p. 118. 
Sloane, Jam. ii. p. 334, pl. 273. fig. 9. 
Lacerta occidua, Shaw, Zool. iil. p. 288. 
Scincus gallivasp, Daud. Rept. iv. p. 239. 
fossor, Merr, Tent. p. 74. 
Tiliqua occidua, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1839, p. 292. 
Diploglossus shawii, Dum. §& Bibr. v. p. 590. 
Celestus occiduus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 124. 
Diploglossus (Celestus) occiduus, part., Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., 
Rept. p. 385, 
Lateral teeth with subspherical crowns in the adult. Ear- 
opening at least as large as the eye-opening; a large azygos pre- 
frontal, broader than and in contact with the entire anterior border 
of the frontal, in contact on each side with the largest loreal, and 
separated from the rostral by two pairs of shields; frontal not more 
than once and a half as long as broad; parietal on each side sepa- 
rated from the frontal and supraoculars by two or three shields ; 
occipital larger than interparietal ; nasal separated from rostral; a 
postnasal and two or three loreals, second largest; rostral broader 
than the mental; the suturo between the seventh and eighth or 
eighth and ninth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye; 
four or five large chin-shields on each side, first or first two in 
contact with the lower labials. Body moderately elongate, roundish- 
subquadrangular. Forty-six to fifty scales round the middle of the 
body ; dorsals finely striated and with a more or less distinct obtuse 
keel. Limbs nearly meeting when adpressed ; digits rather short; 
fourth toe considerably longer than third; claws exposed. Tail 
strongly compressed ; caudal scales not keeled. Brownish above, 
with dark brown spots or cross bands, 
* Probably a sexual difference. 
