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adjoining ones. The head is subconical. The maxillary teeth short 

 and subconical. The palate toothless. The eye is moderate ; the 

 lower lid being scaly. The auricular aperture either simple or 

 denticulated in front; tympanum rather sunk. The limbs are 

 moderate; the fingers and toes five, unequal and compressed. Tail 

 long, subconical, and tapering. 



SYN.—Einulia, Gray, Catal. Lizz. Brit. Mus. 1845, 74 ; &, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. 

 VI, 1845, 6. 



Obsery. — The species which follows being the only one directly 

 examined by us, we have not been able to make a thorough study of 

 the present genus. It strikes us as though composed of heterogeneous 

 elements, neither sufficiently investigated in themselves nor judiciously 

 compared to one another. 



HiNULTA TAENIOLATA. Gray. 



Spec. Char. — Nasal plates contiguous. Postfrontals separated. Fifth 

 upper labial large, quadrangular, situated under the pupil. Auricu- 

 lar aperture large, denticulated in front ; tympanum rather sunk. 

 Twenty-six longitudinal rows of scales around the body. Above 

 brown or black, with eight white lines extending from the head to 

 the base of the tail. Tail light brown, with three black streaks. 

 Beneath whitish, unicolor. 



Syn. — Lacerta taeniolata, Shaw, in WMtef Journ. Voy. N. S. Wales, 1790, 245, 

 PI. XXXII ; &, Gen. Zool. Ill, i, 1802, 239. 



Scincus octoUneatus, Daud. Hist. nat. Rept. IV, 1802, 285. 



Scincus taeniolatus, Mere. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 72. 



Scincus undecimstriatus, KuHL, Beytr. Zool. und Yergl. Anat. 1820, 129. 



Scincus multilineatus, Less. Voy. dc la Coq. Zool. II, i, 1830, 45, PI. Ill, fig. 2. 



TiUqua taeniolata, Gray, Synops. Rept. in Griff. Anira. Kingd. IX, 1831, 68; &, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. II, 1839, 289. 



Lygosoma taeniolata, DuM. & BiBR. Erp^t. gen. V, 1839, 734. 



Hinulia taeniolata, Gray, Catal. Lizz. Brit. Musi 1845, 78 ) &, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. 

 VI, 1845, 7. 



Le scinque d dix rates, Lacep. in Ann. Mus. d'hist. nat, IV, 1804, 192 & 208. 



Keneux de Lesueur, Coct. Tab. synopt. Seine. (Compt. rend. Acad, des Sc. IV, 1837.) 



Descr. — A small, slender, graceful, and quite handsome species : 

 the specimen before us measuring about five inches in total length. 



