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lateral streak ; sides blackish, with regular series of white spots ; 

 a white streak from above axilla to groin. The ground colour 

 may be black, with the usual white markings. Lower surfaces 

 white. 



Total length 275 mm. 



Head 16 



Width of head 10 



Body 69 



Fore-limb 24 



Hind-limb 40 



Tail 190 „ "— Boulenger. 



Habits. — This lizard is usually found hiddeia under logs and 

 stones, where it often forms channels in the soft ground. 



Distribution. — - Victoria : Prahran, Sunbury, Pyramid Hill 

 (Melb. Mus.) ; Grampians, Bendigo, Brown's Plains, Castlemaine, 

 Beechworth, Mount Stanley (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Fairly well distributed over the 

 whole of Australia and adjacent islands. 



HiNULiA T^NiOLATA, White. 



Hinnlia tcEniolata, Gray, Cat., p. 78. 



Lacerta tceniolata, White, Journ. N.S.W., p. 245, pi. — ; fig. 1. 



Scincus actolineatus, Daud., Kept., iv., p. 285. 



fceniotatiis, Merr. Tent, p. 72. 



iindecinistriatus, Kuhl, Beitr. z. Zool. u. Vergl. Anat., 



p. 129. 



niulti/ineatus, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., ii., p. 45, 



pi. iii., fig. 2. 



Tiliqiia tceniolata, Gray, Griff". A. K., ix., Syn., p. 68. 



Lygosoma tceniolata, Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 733 ; Hallow, Proc. 

 Ac. Philad., 1860, p. 490. 



Hinulia tceniolata, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 258. 



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



Descriptio7i. — '^' Habit slender ; the distance between the end 

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

 once and four-fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout moderate, obtuse ; loreal region nearly vertical. Lower 

 eyelid scaly. Nostril jDierced in a single nasal ; no supranasal • 



