Zoology.] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. lEeptiles. 



Plate 191, Fio. 2. 



HINULIA QUOYI (Dum. and Bib.). 



Quoy's Hinulia Lizard. 



Description. — Moderately slender ; back broad, flattened; head broad, triangu- 

 lar, obtusel}' pointed ; tail compressed in middle portion, rounded above and below. 

 Head plates: Nostril near lower edg'e of nasal, with slig'ht indication of vertical 

 sulcus, not meeting above ; rostral hexagonal, moderate, curved round obtusely 

 rounded tip of snout, joining' prefrontal or internasal by moderately broad suture, 

 separating- nasals; prefrontal broader than long-, scarcely touching- anterior acute 

 angle of frontal; frenonasals just touching- by points of inner ang-les, or nearly so; 

 frontal quadrang-ular, acute-angled in front, posterior end very acute-angled, long-, 

 narrow to hind apex, lateral sides touching- the first, second, and part of third supra- 

 oculars, as long- as f'ronto-parietals and interparietal taken together; fourth supra- 

 oculars larg-e, with a very small fifth posterior one ; nine supraciliaries, the sixth 

 and seventh largest; three larg-e temporal plates on each outer side of parietals; 

 a row of three pairs of nuchal or oceipital plates, long-er than wide, inner pair 

 largest; parietals very larg-e, sometimes touching- behind end of interparietal ; 

 seven upper labials, sixth and seventh largest, fifth and sixth under the eye ; five 

 loreals; ear-opening- nearly as large as eye, with very slight indication of four 

 lobules within anterior edg-e, smaller than adjacent scales. Legs rather long; 

 longest hind toe, if di'awn up to side of body and fore leg- drawn down, reaches to 

 wrist of fore leg; from tip of snout to shoulder about once and a half in space from 

 axil of arm to groin on front edge of hind limbs. Tail about twice as long- as head 

 and body (too short, from re-growth, in specimen figured). Scales: Forty round 

 middle of body, ventral scales smooth and slightly larger than the dorsal ones, which 

 are very faintly marked watli three or five longitudinal striee ; scales of sides much 

 smaller than those of upper or undersides. Three pairs of large preanal scales, 

 long-er than wide, middle much largest. Toes compressed, subdigital plates divided 

 by longitudinal grooves, twenty-four under longest or fourth toe. Colour: Pale 

 greenish olive-brown on upper surface; underside and end of tail yellowish-white; 

 sides pale greyish-blue ; a broad band along- each side at turn of back of irregular, 

 vertical, broad, dark-brown streaks, with zig-zag edges and irregularly connected ; 

 upper side of limbs with numerous, irregular, transverse, zig-zag, dark-brown 

 markings ; middle of back, top of head, and sides of tail with a lew small, quadrate, 

 dark-brown specks ; sometimes a few dark specks on throat and belly, occasionally 

 but rarely forming- lines of dark spots fi-om throat to preanal scales. Measurements : 

 Length of head, 8 lines ; width of head, 6 lines ; length of head and body from tip 

 of snout to end of preanal scales, 2 in. 8 lines ; width of middle of bodj', 6 lines ; 

 length of anterior limb, 8 lines; length of posterior limb, 1 in. 1 line. 



References. — =^Lygosoma Quoyi, Dum. and Bib., Erpt. v. 5, p. 728; =Hinulia 

 gastrosticta, GUnther, Ereb. and Ter. Rept., p. 11; Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Urainie, 

 Zool., t. 42, fig. 1. 



This is a mucli broader Lizard, with wider back, than the 

 H. tenuis or H. elegans., and has more numerous rows of scales 

 round the middle of the body. 



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