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that color, in the midst of which, may be seen elongated whitish spots. 

 The limbs and tail are variegated with black and olive. Beneath uni- 

 color, bluish, else of a soiled white. 



Log. — Feejee Archipelago. " Seems to keep mostly on the ground, 

 among stones." [Pickering.] 



2. EmOA SAMOENSIS, Grd. 



Spec. Char. — Body stoutish, rather deep. Scales moderate, constitut- 

 ing thirty-two or four longitudinal series. Postfrontal plates conti- 

 guous. Middle occipital distinct. Auricular aperture moderate, with 

 three small erect scales at the anterior margin. Four middle pre- 

 anal scales, largest. Tail subconical and long. Olivaceous above, 

 maculated with black ; beneath unicolor and lighter. 



Syn. — Eumeces samoensis, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud et dans I'Oceanie. PL 

 V, fig. 2. — DuM. & A. DuM. Catal. m^th. Kept. Mus. d'hist. nat. ii, 1851, 157. 

 Umoa samoensis, Grd. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. November, 1857. 



Descr. — The head is of moderate development, very much depressed, 

 slender, elongated, pointed towards the snout, which is subconical. The 

 rostral plate is large, depressed, owing to the declivous snout ; very con- 

 vex, almost protruding, though the jaws be even. The nostrils perfo- 

 rate about the middle of a single plate, situated upon the side of the 

 snout. An elongated supra- or internasal, lies almost horizontally over 

 the nasal plate; it is broadest anteriorly, where it is contiguous to the 

 rostral ; tapering posteriorly, where it meets the postnasal. The pre- 

 frontal is large, subrhomboid, almost as broad as long, contiguous ante- 

 riorly to the rostral, thus keeping the nasals, as well as the internasals, 

 widely apart. The postfrontals are rather large, sublozenge-shaped, 

 contiguous upon the middle of the snout, thus preventing the vertex 

 plate from coming into contact with the prefrontal. The vertex plate 

 is moderate, elongated, subpentagonal, broadest anteriorly ; its ante- 

 rior angle engaging between the postfrontals. The parietal is unique, 

 broadest posteriorly, slightly notched at the summit to admit the ante- 

 rior and broadest extremity of the middle occipital, which is quite 

 small and spear-shaped. The latero-occipitals are well developed^ 



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