TJie Liaards indigenons to Victoria. G3 



TiLIQUA SCINCOIDKS, AVhite. 



Cyciodiis gigas, Gray, Cat., p. 103. 



Lacerta scincoides, White Jour., Voy. N.S. Wales, p. 242, pi. — ; 

 Shaw, Nat. Miscell., v., pi. clxxix. 



Scifiais crotaphojiielas. Laeep., Ann. Mus., iv., 1804, pp. 192, 209. 



tiibercidatiis, Merr. Tent., p. 73. 



Tiliqua iubercidata, Gray, Ann. Phil. (2) x., 1825, p. 201, and 

 in Gray's Yoy. Austr. ii., p. 429. 



- — - — scincoides^ Fitzing, N. Class Rept., p. 52. 



ivhitii, Gray, Griff. A.K., ix., Syn., p. 67. 



crotaphofiielas, Gi-ay, I.e., p. 68. 



Cyclodus boddoertii, part., Dum. and Bibr. v., p. 752. 



gigas, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Hei-p., p. 233 ; 



Strauch, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb., x., 1866, p. 454; McCoy, Prod. 

 Zool. Vict., dec. viii., pi. Ixxi. 



boddoertii, Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xiii., 



1878, p. 366. 



Description. — " Frontonasal in contact with the rosti'al ; pr?e- 

 f rontals forming a median suture ; four supraoculars, second 

 largest ; six or seven supraciliaries ; interparietal narrower than 

 the parietals ; scales on the occiput not or but slightly broader 

 than long ; anterior temporals much larger than the others, about 

 as long as the interparietal ; ear-opening about as large as the 

 eye-opening, with two or three large, obtuse lobules. Scales 

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

 thirty-four to forty round the middle of the body. Fore-limb as 

 long as or a little shorter than the head ; its length in the adulr, 

 contained from three to four times in the distance between axilla 

 and groin. Tail cylindrical, shorter than the body." Colojir. — 

 Olive above with seven or eight more or less distinct dark-brown 

 cross bands ; tine dark-bi'own lines marking the intersection of 

 scales along the upper surface of the neck ; usually with a dark- 

 brown band extending from above the fore-limb to the eye, 

 broken above the ear-opening ; tail with six or seven dark -brown 

 cross bands ; sides and under surfaces greyish, or yellowish, Avith 

 blackish transverse marblings ; throat immaculate or with a few 

 dark spots. Tongue bright Prussian-blue. 



