4, SAURESIA.—5, PANOLOPUS. 295 
1. Sauresia sepoides. (Prats XIV. fig. 2.) 
Sauresia sepsoides, Gray, l. ec. p. 282; Bocourt, 1. c. pl. xxii. a. fig. 5. 
Embryopus habichii, Ween. J. ¢. pl. v. fig. 1. 
Head small, not distinct from neck; ear-opening very small; an 
azygos prefrontal, broader than long, in contact with the entire 
anterior border of the frontal, separated from the rostral by two 
pairs of shields ; frontal alittle longer than broad; parietal on each 
side separated from the frontal and supraorbitals by three shields ; 
three consecutive shields between the nasal and the preocular, the 
second in contact with the azygos prefrontal; infraorbital wedged 
in between fifth and sixth upper labials ; four large chin-shields on 
each side, first in contact with lower labials. Body elongate, sub- 
cylindrical; thirty-four scales round the body, dorsals and laterals 
finely striated. Limbs very short, the front ones much shorter than the 
head; digits very short, claws retractile. Tail long and nearly as 
thick as the body. Brown above, the sides closely spotted with 
darker and separated from the dorsal region by a dark brown line, 
which extends forwards to the canthus rostralis; labials spotted 
with dark brown ; lower surface yellowish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- Body: sige cvevies 4 48 
produced) ...... 182 Fore limb ........ 6 
Cadets eam cos 10 Hind limb........ 10 
Width of head .... 65 
8. Domingo. 
a, Ad. 8. Domingo. M. Sallé [C.]. (Type.) 
5. PANOLOPUS. 
Panolopus, Cope, Pr. Ac. Philad, 1861, p. 494. 
No lateral fold. Scaling of the back quincuncial. Supranasals, 
nasals, first upper labial, and rostral confluent into a large shield in 
which the nostril is pierced. Four limbs; anterior without digits, 
posterior with a rudimentary one on the inner border. Teeth 
obtuse. 
West Indies. 
1. Panolopus costatus. 
Panolopus costatus, Cope, J. c. 
Form elongate ; body fusiform, tetragonal. Anterior extremity 
consisting of brachium and antebrachium, as long as the commissure 
of the mouth; it is terminated on its inner face by a tubercle. 
Posterior extremity as long as the distance from the rictus to the 
axilla, consisting of femur, tibia, and tarsus ; sole tuberculous, with 
two callosities, that on its external border much the larger; a 
tubercle-like spur on its inner. Auricular opening present, small. 
