70 REPTILES. 



a. Adult female, in spirits. Tail reproduced, shortened. Port 



Essington. From Mr. Gilbert's collection. 



b. Adult, in spirits. W. Australia. From Mr. Dring's collection. 



II. Eyes distinct, eyelids distinct, valvular. Head conical. 



Fam. XV. The Scincs, (Scincid^). 



Head suLquadrangular, regularly shielded. Rostral plate mo- 

 derate, erect, sometimes rather produced and transversely keeled. 

 Nostrils lateral, in a more or less large nasal shield, with some- 

 times a supranasal over it between the nasal and internasal. Body 

 fusifomi or subcylindrical. Tail cylindrical or tapering. Scales 

 smooth, or keeled, or striated. Limbs 4, more or less strong, 

 sometimes wanting, or rather hidden under the skin. Femoral 

 pores none. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



I. Scales thin, smooth, not striated nor keeled. Nostrils in a sin- 

 gle smooth plate, without any lunate groove behind. Tail round, 

 tapering, unarmed. 



A. Toes depressed, fringed on the sides. Head wedge-shaped. Ros- 

 tral depressed, keeled in front. Nostril in the middle of the 

 upper edge of the nasal, with a triangular sxipranasal above the 

 rostral. Scincina. 



1. SciNcus. Body fusiform, flat below. Toes 5-5. 



B. Toes compressed, simple. Head subquadrangular. Rostral 

 erect, triangular. Nostril in the middle of a shield. 



a. Supranasal plate none. 



* Body fusiform. Lower eyelid covered ivith scales ; fronto- 

 parietals 2. 



2. HiisuLiA. Head subquadrangular. Heel surrounded with 



granules. 



3. Keneuxia. Head depressed in front. Rostral and labials 

 low. Heel with a flat oval plate behind. 



4. Elania. Head conical. Rostral rather produced. Heel sur- 



rounded with granules. 



** Body fusiform. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. 



5. MocoA. Rostral erect, triangular. Palate toothless. 



a. Leilopisma. Rostral erect, triangular. Palate toothed. Pa- 

 rietal plates 2, large, square. 



