NORTH AMERICAN BATRACHIA AND REPTlMA. 
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basal ones tuberculous; color dirty white; head yellowish above. 
Florida. 
Family SCINCIDHL 
Nasal plate single, ungrooved, nostril in the center; rostral 
erect, triangular ; scales smooth ; limbs present ; toes compressed, 
five on each foot. 
Palate toothless; supranasal plate none; lower eyelid 
with a transparent disk; ear large, circular, entirely 
exposed Oligosoma. 
Palate toothed; supranasal plates two; lower eyelid 
scaly ; limbs strong ; ear dentate in front Eameces. 
Genus Oligosoma, Grd. 
81. 0. later ale, (Say.) Grd. Ground Lizard. Head short; 
body and tail long ; color above chestnut, with a black lateral line 
from snout to near tip of tail ; beneath neck silvery-white ; abdo- 
men yellowish ; tail blue; limbs weak. Austro riparian region; 
South Carolina. 
Genus Eumeces, Wieg. 
82. E. septentrionalis , (*Bd.) Cope. Northern Skink. One 
postnasal plate, not separating the internasals and postfrontals ; 
color above olive ; with four equidistant and equal dark stripes, 
covering two half rows of scales ; two narrow white lateral lines 
traversing the centers of a single row of scales, margined bv 
black ; upper lateral stripes separated by six rows of scales ; be- 
neath greenish. Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. (Hoy.) 
83. E. egregius , (Bd.) Cope. Floridan Skink. One post- 
nasal plate, separating postfrontal and internasals; four upper 
labials; two central dorsal rows of scales largest; ear very small; 
color above reddish-ash, with two white lines on each side, mar- 
gined with dusky ; sometimes a third; each on the center of a 
single row of scales ; upper lateral lines separated by two plain 
rows of scales. Florida. 
84. E. onocrepis , Cope. Frontal in contact with vertical; 
postfrontals not in contact medially; superciliaries three, anterior 
longest; superior labials eight; dorsal scales equal; color above 
dark brown, darkest on sides and lightest on tail; two narrow 
light lines on each side of head and neck, none on body or tail ; 
below white or straw color. Florida. 
85. E. anthracinus , (Bd.) Cope. Coal Skink. Color above 
dark bronze, with four yellow lateral stripes, between and above 
