CO Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



golong, Grampians, Pyramid Hill, Gembrook, Tynong (L. and F.). 

 Range outside Victoria. — Northern Queensland, Gayndah. 



Egernia cunninghami, Gray. 



Egernia cunninghami., Gray, Cat., p, 105. 



Tiliqiia cunninghami., Gray, Proc, Zool. Soc, 1832, p. 40. 



Egernia cunninghami, Gray, Ann. N.H., ii., 1838, p. 288, 

 and in Stokes, Discov. in Austral., i., p. 499, pi. ii. 



Tropidolepisma cunninghami., A. Dum., Cat. Meth. Rept., 

 p. 177. 



Egernia krefftii, Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac, 1871, p. 30. 



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

 nostril ; frontonasal in contact with the rostral ; prjefrontals 

 usually forming a median suture ; frontal not twice as long as 

 broad, as lai'ge as or a little larger than the interparietal ; four or 

 five supi'aoculars, second largest ; seven or eight superciliaries ; 

 sixth and seventh, or seventh and eighth upper labials entering 

 the orbit ; two or four pair of nuchals. Ear-opening as large as, 

 or a little larger than the eye-opening, with four or five pointed 

 lobules anteriorly. Nuchal scales pluricarinate, dorsals and 

 laterals sharply unicarinate, ending in a point, the keel and the 

 point becoming stronger towards the tail ; dorsal scales largest, 

 laterals smallest ; thirty-six to forty-two scales round the middle 

 of the body. The adpressed limbs largely overlap. Digits 

 moderate. Tail cylindrical, a little longer than the head and 

 body ; upper caudal scales strongly unicarinate, ending in a spine." 

 Colour. — Olive-brown above with irregular spots or blotches of a 

 darker colour ; in the young speckled with light dots, which 

 usually disappear in the adult ; head-shields edged with black ; 

 lower surfaces whitish or pale-olive spotted or blotched with dark- 

 brown ; throat whitish-olive. 



