The Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 41 



LiALis, Grray. 



Parietal bones coalesced. Teetli sharply pointed, directed 

 backwards. Tongue elongate, nar roving towards the end, bifid. 

 Ear exposed. Slight rudiments of hind limbs externally. Head 

 covered with small plates. Scales soft, smooth, cycloid, imbricate, 

 the two median series on the belly and the median series under 

 the tail transversely enlarged, hexagonal. Prpeanal pores in both 

 sexes, frequently indistinct in females. 



This monotypic genus is found in Australia and in New 

 Guinea. 



LiALis BURTONii, Gray. 



Lialis burtonii^ Gray, Cat., p. 69. 



Lialis bicatenata, Gray, Cat., p. 69. 



Lialis pzmctulata, Gray, Cat., p. 69. 



Lialis burtonii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1834, p. 134 ; Dum. and 

 Bibr. v., p. 831 ; Gray in Grey's Trav. Austral, ii., p. 437, pi iii., 

 fig. 1, and Zool. Misc., p. 52, and Zool. Erebus and Terror Kept., 

 p. 5, pi. viii., fig. 2 ; A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Rept., p. 194 ; Giinther, 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) xx., 1867 p. 46 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. 

 Vict, pi., 162. 



Lialis bicatenate^ Cray, Zool. Misc., p. 52, and Zool. Erebus and 

 Terror, p. 5; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1873, p. 606. 



Lialis punctulata^ Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 52, and Zool. Erebus and 

 Tei ror, p. 5, pi. viii., tig. 1 ; Giinther, I.e. 



Lialis leptorhyncha., Peters, i.e., p. 605. 



Description. — "Snout narrow, depressed, long, acuminate, 

 truncate at the tip, with angular canthus rostralis ; eye small, 

 with circular scaly rudimentary lid; ear-opening elliptical, oblique. 

 Tail, when intact, nearly as long as head and body, gradually 

 tapering to a fine point. Rudiments of hind-limbs extremely 

 small, scarcely distinct, especially in females. Four or five 

 prseanal pores, frequently indistinct in females. Snout covered 

 with small plates, variable in number and arrangement ; three 

 supraorbitals, median large ; loreal region covered with numerous 

 small scales ; the rest of the liead with equal scales ; rostral very 

 low ; nostril pierced in the posterior portion of a nasal ; thirteen 

 to seventeen upper labials, all very small, separated from the 



