The Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 39 



Habits. — Fcund a few inches below the surface of the ground 

 where it is often turned up by the plough. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Melbourne, Wimmera, Kewell, neur 

 Dimboola (Melb. Mus.) ; Murray District (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia: Perth, Champion 

 Bay, Nichol Bay ; Queensland. 



Delma impar, Fischer. 



Pseudodelma impar, Fischer, Arch, f, Naturg., xlviii., 1882, 

 p. 287, pi. xvi., figs. 1-4 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vic, pi. 161. 



Description. — " Tail twice as long as head and body. Rudi- 

 mentary limbs small. Rostral pentagonal ; nosti'il pierced in the 

 lower portion of the nasal, which forms a suture with its fellow 

 on the snout ; a pair of large plates between the nasals and the 

 prsefrontal ; latter seven-sided, a little larger than the frontal, 

 which is also seven-sided and smaller than the parietals ; a band- 

 like plate on the outer side of the latter ; two supraorbitals ; a 

 large loreal and four small plates between the orbit and the 

 nasal ; seven upper labials, fourth elongate and situated below 

 the orbit, from which it is separated by a row of small scales ; 

 mental large, triangular ; six lower labials, the first forming a 

 suture with its fellow behind the mental. Fifteen longitudinal 

 rows of scales round the middle of the body. Two enlarged 

 prseanal scales. Colour. — Olive-green, lighter beneath ; on each side 

 of the back two light, dark-edged longitudinal lines. From snout 

 to vent 80 mm.; tail 167 mm." — Boulenger. 



Habits. — Found coiled up like a snake under stones in Spring. 

 Large numbers were turned up by the pick and shovel in 

 removing the surface soil in the construction of the sewers at 

 Werribee. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Melbourne district, Werribee River 

 (Melb. Mus.) ; Maryborough (L. and F.) 



Not recorded from outside Victoria. 



Aprasia, Gray. 



Parietal bones distinct. Tongue rounded and slightly nicked 

 at the tip. Ear concealed. Slight rudiments of hind limbs 

 externally. Head with large symmetrical plates ; no parietal 



