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nasals. Frontal not broader tlian tlie supivaocular region. 

 Frontoparietals distinct. A pair of enlarged prseanals. 



HiNULiA LESUEURii, Dum. and Bibr. 



Uinulin austniHs, Gray, Cat., p. 77. 



Tiliqua australis, Gray, Ann. N.H., ii., 1838, p. 291. 



Lygosojna lesueurii, Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 733. 



australe, (non Gray), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1863, p. 



231. 



schomlmrgkii, Peters, I.e. 



Eiiprepes australis, Steindachn, Novara, Rept., p. 49. 



Lygosoma (Hinulia) pantherimim., Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 

 1866, p. 89. 



Hitiulia spaldingi, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc N.S.W., ii., 1877, 

 p. 63. 



Description. — "Habit slender; the distance between the end 

 of the snout and the fore-limb is contained once and a half to 

 twice in the distance between axilla and groin ; snout moderate, 

 obtuse ; loreal region nearly vertical. Lower eyelid scaly. 

 Nostril pierced in a single nasal, no supranasal ; no postnasal ; 

 rostral usually in contact \vith the frontonasal ; latter broader 

 than long ; prsefrontals forming a median suture ; frontal as long 

 as or a little longer than the frontoparietals and parietals together, 

 in contact with three anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; 

 eight supraciliaries ; first largest ; frontoparietals distinct, as long 

 as or shorter than the interparietal ; parietals forming a median 

 suture behind the interparietal ; two to four pairs of nuchals ; 

 fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh upper labials below the eye. 

 Ear-opening oval, about as large as the eye-opening, the anterior 

 border with a fringe of four or five lobules. Twenty-four to 

 thirty-four smooth scales round the body ; dorsals, especially the 

 two vertebral series, largest, laterals smallest. Two large 

 prseanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist or the elbow of the 

 adpressed fore-limb. Toes long and slender, compressed; sub- 

 digital lamellae feebly unicarinate, twenty-two to twenty-six linder 

 the fourth toe. Tail more than twice the length of head and 

 body. Colo2ir. — Brown or olive-brown above, with a black, 

 white-edged vertebral band, and a white, black-edged dorso- 



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