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smooth, laterals a little smaller than the dorsals and ventrals, 

 thirty-two to forty round the middle of the body. The 

 adpressed limbs overlap. Digits moderately elongate. Tail more 

 or less distinctly compressed, once and two-fifths to once and 

 two-thirds the length of head and body ; caudal scales smooth. 

 Colour. — Upper surfaces usually brown or olive-brown, with two 

 dorsal black bands, each bearing a series of yellowish-white or 

 pale-brown spots ; sides with similar black-edged spots or ocelli; 

 lower surfaces pale-olive, throat sometimes with black markings." 

 — Boulenger. 



In hilly country specimens are after met with on which the 

 markings of the upper surfaces have entirely disappeared. The 

 edge of the eyelids and ear lobules are constantly yellow. 



In Victoria this lizai'd rarely exceeds 250 mm. in length. 



Habits. — This lizard is usually met with on open stony ground, 

 and dry rocky hills. When disturbed it rapidly disappears under 

 logs or stones. In confinement it makes an interesting little pet, 

 soon becoming tame and readily taking insects from the hand. 

 Its food consists chiefly of insects, although in captivity it will 

 feed on smaller lizards, and in one instance within our knowledge 

 one was known to swallow its own tail. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Mordialloc, Caulfield, Sun bury, 

 Keilor, Upper Yarra, Jan Juc, Mt. Hope, Grampians, Beaufort 

 (Melb. Mus.). This species is distributed over the whole of 

 the colony (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria : South Australia, West Australia, 

 Houtman's Abrolhos, Tasmania, King Island, Kent Group, 

 Kangaroo Island, New South Wales, Queensland. 



