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entirely wanting, leaving the sides blue ; sides of head bluish- 

 brown ; labials and chin greyish-white ; throat, abdomen, and 

 under surface of tail light greenish-blue, each scale of the hinder 

 two-thirds of the latter with a distinct posterior Ijrown margin, 

 which becomes more accentuated towards the tip ; lindjs blue, 

 the outer scales broadly brown-edged, and with an occasional 

 orange spot. 



Inches. Millini. 



Totallength 5-65 ... 143 



Length of head 0-52 ... 13 



Width of head 041 ... 



Body 1-88 ... 48 



Fore limb 0-67 ... 17 



Hind limb 0-91 ... 23 



Tail 3-25 ... 82 



The Lizard above de.scribed was obtained by Mr. H. J. McCooey 

 at l>rawlin near Cootamundra, where it does not appear to be 

 scarce ; the Mu.seum is indebted to this gentleman for many 

 interesting and valuable specimens both zoological and ethno- 

 logical, and we have therefore much pleasure in dedicating this 

 well marked and interesting species to its discoverer. 



The species belongs to the small section of Dumeril and Bibron's 

 genus Liolepisma, which is characterized by the absence of a fifth 

 finger and the conjunction of the fronto-parietals, its nearest ally 

 being apparently Mocoa tetradactyla, O'Shaughn. ; the most 

 obvious distinctions between the two forms, as taken from 

 Mr. Boulenger's description of O'Shaughnessy's species and from 

 that given above are as follows : — In L. tetraAactylum (1) the 

 head is much larger, both as to length and breadth, in comparison 

 with the body (14 and 10 to 41 against 13 and 9 to 44 mm.) ; 

 (2) the prefrontals ai'e in contact ; (3) the frontal is much shorter 

 than the fronto-parietal ; (4) the scales have no trace of carination ; 

 (5) the non-enlargement of the preanals ; (6) the shorter tail ; 

 and (7) the ditl'erent pattern of coloration. Even, howevei", 

 should future investigation prove Lyyosoma maccooeyi to be a 

 handsome vai'iety of L. tetradactylum^ much will have been gained 

 by fixing indisputably the h.ibitat of that species ; and should 

 this conclu.sion be arrived at we have little doubt that L. pectorale 

 {Ileteropus pectorali)>, De Vis) will also have to become a .synonym 

 of L. tetradactylum, but the description is unfortunately so 

 inadequate that it is quite impossible to determine this question 

 without an examination of the original type. 



