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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Total length 



Head 



Width of head 



Body 



Fore-limb... 



Hind-liml) 



Tail 



585 inni. 



70 „ 



5S „ 



265 „ 



68 „ 



67 „ 



250 ., 



Habits. — Met with in sandy heath country, and on the hill 

 sides in lightly timbered districts. Movements very sluggish. 



Mode of reproduction. ^0\\\mYO\\^, eggs round, twelve to fifteen 

 laid about December. A female specimen captured in November, 

 on dissection was found to contain fifteen full-size eggs, in none 

 of which was there any trace of an embryo. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Sunbury, Pyramid Hill (Melb. Mus.); 

 Kew, Wood end, Werribee Gorge (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Tasmania, King Island, New South 

 Whales, Port Essington, Cape York. 



TiLIQUA NIGRO-LUTEA, Gray. 



Cyclodus nigroluteus, Gray, Cat., p. 104 ; Quoy. and Gaim., 

 Voy. Uranie Rept., pi. xli. 



Tiliqua nigroluteas, Gray, Griff. A. K., ix., Syn., p. 68. 



Cyclodus nigroluteus, Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 750 ; Strauch, 

 Bull. Ac, St. Petersb., x., 1866, p. 457. 



Description. — "Frontonasal in contact with the rostral, and 

 sometimes with the frontal ; four supraoculars ; four or five 

 supraciliaries ; interparietal narrower than the parietals ; scales 

 on the occiput not broader than long • anterior temporals not 

 larger than the others; ear-opening smaller than the eye-opening, 

 with two obtuse lobules ; twenty-eight to thirty scales round the 

 middle of the body, dorsals largest, rather rugose. Fore-limb as 

 long as or slightly longer than the head, its length contained thrice 

 to thrice and a half in the distance between axilla and groin. 

 Tail not quite half the length of head and body, cylindrical." 

 Colour. — Upper surfaces of head and tail olive-brown, body dull- 

 yellow with blackish-brown irregular longitudinal dashes and 

 transverse bands, leaving the ground colour in from five to seven 

 irregular patches extending from the neck to the base of the tail ; 



