Mr. J. E. Gray on the Slender-tongued Saurians. 291 



** Scales smooth. 

 Tiliqua tenuis, Gray, Griff. Anim. Kingd. 71. Seine, erucotis, Pe- 

 ron, MSS. 



New Holland. Brit. Mus. 



Tiliqua Stoddartii. Scales smooth ; pale olive, scales darker edged ; 

 upper part of sides, side of head, and base of the tail with broad 

 black bands ; upper lip, sides, throat, and beneath white ; lips black 

 spotted ; limbs darker varied ; toes unequal. 



New Holland, Mr. Stoddart. Mus. Chatham. 



Tiliqua Vachellii. Black with 3 longitudinal brown streaks, the 

 middle one becoming wider behind, and marked with a row of small 

 spots between the upper bands, and 2 rows of spots on each side, the 

 lower ones largest ; sides brown banded ; head and lips pale, orbits 

 and face shields black varied ; beneath pale ; tail pale, base slightly- 

 black spotted. 



New Holland. Mus. Chatham. 



Tiliqua leucopsis. Ears deep, with 3 (rarely 4) unequal distinct 

 white scales in front ; scales smooth, olive, black varied ; back with 

 2 black streaks interrupted with brown spots ; edge of eyelids and 

 scales in front of the ears pure opake white, beneath silvery ; toes 

 elongate, unequal ; tail elongate, olive, the upper part of the base 

 black spotted. 



New Holland. Brit. Mus. 



Tiliqua australis. Ears deep, with 4 unequal rather large white 

 scales in front ; scales smooth, brown edged ; above olive with 4 

 blackish brown longitudinal streaks ; the central streak silvery edged, 

 and the two lateral ones only separated by a lateral silvery streak ; 

 the side brownish white dotted, beneath silvery ; tail olive with two 

 brown- edged silvery streaks on each side of its base. 

 New Holland. Brit. Mus. 



Tiliqua Buchananii, Gray. Ears shallow, overlapped by 2 or 3 

 whitish superficial scales;' scales smooth, olive, black lined; above 

 black and olive varied ; back with a broad black-edged silvery streak 

 on each side ; limbs, tail, and sides olive and black dotted, beneath 

 silvery. 



New Holland. Brit. Mus. 



Tiliqua trilineata. Ears deep ; scales hexangular, olive, 



darker edged, with 3 black longitudinal grooves ; above olive, with 

 narrow black lines between the scales ; with a silvery, and below it a 

 broad black, line along each side ; beneath silvery ; tail elongate, 

 compressed ; toes unequal, slender. 

 New Holland. Brit, Mus. 



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