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i(jun(l the middle of the body. Limbs widely separated when 

 adpressed ; digits very short. Tail about as long as the head, 

 stump-like, scaled like the body. Colour. — Dark-brown above, 

 with yellowish spots or irregular cross-bands ; lower surfaces 

 yellowish, spotted or marbled with brown, or with longitudinal 

 and transverse brown streaks. 



Habits. — Found in dry open country; movements very sluggish. 



This lizard appears to subsist on a vegeta'ble diet, the stomach 

 of one found on the Grampians contained nothing but fungus and 

 Styphelia berries. 



Mode of reproduction. — Young developed within the body of the 

 parent. "Brings forth in March a single young one of surprising 

 .size, about half the length of the parent." — McCoy, Prod. Zool. 

 of Vict. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Kewell, (Melb. Mus.).; Northern parts 

 of the Colony, (McCoy) ; Grampians, Wimmera (L. and F.). 



TiLiQUA, Gray. 



Palatine bones in contact on the middle line of the palate. 

 Pterygoids toothless. Lateral teeth with spheroidal crowns.* 

 Eyelids well developed, scaly. Tympanum distinct, deeply sunk. 

 Nostril pierced in a single nasal, with a curved groove behind ; 

 no supranasals ; a complete series of shields between the orbit 

 and the upper labials ; prtefrontals well developed ; frontoparietals 

 and interparietal distinct. Limbs short, pentadactyle ; digits 

 subcylindrical or slightly compressed with undivided transverse 

 lamellae inferiorly. 



The genus contains live' species which range over Australasia, 

 from Tasmania to the Indo-Malayan Islands. Three of the 

 species occur in Victoria. 



» E.^cept ill T. aleUtidensis, whicli has the teeth more conical. 



