102 REPTILES. 



large, ratlier elongate. Temple covered with scales. Orbits gra- 

 nular. Lower eyelid with a central series of larger scales. Tjtii- 

 panum round, superficial. Body fusiform, rather depressed. 

 Scales of the back roundish, 6-sided, keeled, the keels forming 

 continued ridges, of the sides smooth, in oblique series, of the 

 throat and under part similar but rather thinner. Preanal shields 

 single, large, 4-sided. Tail elongate, tapering, compressed, above 

 flattened, with 2 close series of keeled scales, with smooth scales 

 on the sides, and a single series of ratlier larger scales beneath. 

 Limbs 4, strong, rather short. Toes 5-5, compressed, unequal. 



The NoRBEA. Norbea Brookei. 



Dull blackish brown ; throat and beneath white. 



a. In spirits, Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir Edw. Belcher, 

 C.B., KN. 



D. Tail round, tapering, rarely spinose, not keeled above. Scales 

 thick, bony, rugose or 3- or 5-keeled, rarely smoothish. Drum 

 of ear deep. Tiliquina. 



* Supranasal shields none. 



■\ Lower eyelid scaly. Toes 5-5, short, strong. Nostrils with a 

 curved groove behind them. Teeth large. Preanal scales rather 

 large. 



31. Trachvdosaurus, Gray. Trachysaurus, Weigm. 

 Sibubolepis, Cocteau. Brachydactylus, A. Smith. 



Head pyramidical ; shields thick, convex. Nasal lateral, with 

 a curved groove behind the nostril, nasoloreal small, supranasal 

 none, intemasal rhombic, frontonasal large, contiguous, frontal 

 and interparietal rather short, frontoparietal 2, moderate, parietal 

 moderate. Occiput and temple shielded. Orbit surrounded by a 

 series of small shields. Lower eyelid scaly. Teeth short, conic. 

 Palate not toothed. Ears oblong, rather narrow. Body thick, 

 fusiform, back rather flattened on each side. Scales thick, con- 

 vex, rugose, imbricate, of the under side thinner, crenulated round 

 the hinder edge. Limbs 4, very short, moderate. Toes 5-5, short 

 subequal. Palms and soles granular. Tail short, convex, cover- 

 ed with large convex scales, like the back above, rapidly tapering 

 at the end. 



The Rugose Stump-tail. Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray, 

 King^s Voy. Austr. ii. 424. Ann. N. H. ii. 288. Waaler, Amjih. 

 t. 36. Brachydactylus typicus, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Jour. fig. 

 young. Gray, Grey, Trav. Austr. ii. 423. Trachysaurus Peronii, 

 Wagler, Syst. 163. " Scincus pachyurus, Peron, MSS.^^ Sibulo- 

 lepis Coct. Tab. Sciiic. 



