LIZARDS. to 



* Ears simple^ in front roundish, 

 f Scales small, numerous. 



The Black-bearded Hinulia. Hiniilia ngevia. Tiliqiia 

 iiEevia, Gray, in Grey, Trav. Aust. ii. 426. Scincus neevius, Per- 

 ron, 3Ius. Pans. S. erythrulamus, and S. melanopogoii, Muller, 

 Mas. Leyd. Lygosoma melanopogon, Dum. et Bib. E. G. v. 723. 



Brown, witli irregular, interrupted, brown, cross bands, be- 

 neath whitish ; legs with a pale streak in front; chin black, spot- 

 ted or varied ; scales small ; head larii-e, short ; supraocular plates 

 6 or 7 pair ; nasal lateral, square ; tail rather compressed. 



n. Adult, in spirits. New Guinea. From the Leyden Museum. 

 h, Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



The White-bavded Hinulia. Hinulia fasciata. 



Black, with a series of narrow white cross bands on each side, 

 interrupted in the middle of the back, beneath white ; legs white- 

 spotted ; scales small, in many series ; supraocular shields 5-5 : 

 nostrils in a subtviangular nearly touching shield ; tail rather 

 compressed. 



a. In spirits. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collec- 

 tion. 



W Scales moderate, in 8 series. Supraocular shields 3-3 or 5-5. 



Dussumier's Hinulia. Hinulia Dussumieri. Lygosoma 

 Dussumieri, Dum. et Bib. E. G. v. 725. Keneux de Dussuinier, 

 Coct. Tab. 



Back fulvous, with a black streak upon each side ; sides with 

 white-edged black streaks, beneath whitish; tail round; legs long; 

 'toes simple ; supraocular plates 4 ; nostrils lateral ; nasal square, 

 internasal rhombic, truncated in front; eai"S large, oval, open, sim- 

 ple-edged. 



Inhab. Malabar, Dussumier. Mus, Paris. 



Gerrard's Hinulia. Hinulia Gerrardii, Gray, Voy. Erebus 

 and Terror, Kept. t. 



Silvery grey (when dry), with a broad irregular brown band 

 across the back of the neck, with a streak to the occiput, and a 

 broader one to each fore leg; body with 6, tail with 12 or 14 broad 

 crescent-like cross brown bands, which are spotted with grey when 

 they cross the side; limbs with bro%vnish streaks; head brown above, 

 head- shields black-edged, with a brown streak on the temple, to- 

 wards the ear ; chin white, brown-lined, belly brown-spotted ; ear 

 open, simple in front, partly covered by the temple-scales; supra- 

 ocular plates 3-3, nasal nearly contiguous, frontcmasal and fronto- 

 parietal contiguous. 



a, b. Adult, stuffed. Australia ?? Length 14 inches, h 2 



