TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 59 



Egeenia striolata, Peters. 



Tropidolepisma striolatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, p. 642. 



Description. — "Head moderate. A curved groove behind the 

 nostril ; frontonasal in contact with the rostral ; prsefrontals 

 forming a median suture ; frontal not twice as long as broad, as 

 large as or smaller than the interparietal ; four supraoculars, 

 second largest ; seven supraciliaries ; fifth or sixth upper labial 

 entering the orbit ; two or three pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening 

 as large as the eye-opening, with three pointed lobules anteriorly. 

 Twenty-eight to thirty-two scales round the middle of the body ; 

 dorsals largest, quadri- or quinquecarinate, laterals smallest, tri- 

 carinate. The adpressed limbs overlap. Digits moderate. Tail 

 cylindrical, a little longer than the head and body ; a series of 

 large, transversely dilated scales on the upper as well as the 

 lower surface of the tail, the former pluricarinate. Colour. — 

 Brown above with lighter dots and a ligliter dorso-lateral band ; 

 longitudinal, more or less confluent blackish streaks on the 

 vertebral region ; a blackish lateral band ; upper head-shields 

 black edged ; labials yellowish, black-edged ; lower surfaces 

 yellowish or greyish ; throat spotted or reticulated with blackish." 



The above colouring applies to specimens from the northern 

 parts of the colony, but on the rocky hills and mountains further 

 south, the colour is uniform blackish-brown or with light dots. 

 The upper labials constantly greyish-white. 



Habits. — This lizard is usually found amongst the rocks on 

 hills and mountains. 



Mode of reproduction. — Young developed within the body of 

 the parent, three or four being brought forth at a time. 



Distribution. ^Victoria. : Gunbower, Pyramid Hill, Upper 

 Yarra, Lilydale, Gippsland (Melb. Mus.) ; Dimboola, Croajin- 



