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Vol. I. PHILADELPHIA, JULY, 1827. No. 2. 
Remarks on some Reptilia described by Richard Har- 
lan, M. D. in the Journal of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia. By Thomas Say. Read April 
23, 1827. 
I HAVE examined the specimen of Scincus described as 
new in pages 286, 287, vol. iv. of the Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. 
Phil, and believe it to be no other than an aged individual 
of the Quinquelineatus ; all the specific characters, so far 
as I can judge, are the same; even the dorsal line, when 
viewed in a particular light, is very obvious on the poste- 
rior part of the body. 
The animal described in pages 284, 285, vol. iv. of the 
same work, belongs to the genus Bipes of Lacepede. 
The toes are not corneous, as stated in the description, 
but are very distinctly clothed with imbricate scales like 
other parts of the body; these scales are continued to the 
very extremity of the toes, but are there adpressed so close- 
ly together as to resemble a very short incurved nail; its 
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