TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 73 



sixteen to nineteen under the fourth toe. Tail twice as long as 

 head and body. Colour. — Pale brown or yellowish-brown above, 

 golden on the sides and on the tail ; each dorsal scale with three 

 or more brown lines ; sides usually with interrupted brown 

 longitudinal lines ; a white brown edged spot or streak below the 

 posterior border of the eye ; lips brown dotted ; lower surfaces 

 yellowish-white, sides of throat and belly with fine brown lines 

 or series of dots ; two longitudinal lines of confluent brown dots 

 under the tail. 



Total length 



Head 



Width of head ... 



Body 



Fore-limb 

 Hind-limb 

 Tail 



Habits. — This lizard is usually found undei 

 the herbage on the hillsides. 



Distribution. — Victoria : St. Kilda, Mulgrave, Dandenong 

 Ranges, Upper Yarra, Waterloo, Lakes Entrance (Melb. Mus.); 

 Ringwood, Ferntree Gully, Healesville, Croajingolong (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — South Australia, New South Wales. 



LiOLEPiSMA ENTRECASTEAUXii, Dum. and Bibr, 



Mocoa entrecasteauxii, Gray, Cat., p. 82. 



Lygosonia entrecasteauxii., Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 717. 



Mocoa pseudocarinata, O'Shaughn., Ann. Mag. N.H. (4), xiii., 

 1874, p. 300. 



pseudotropis, Giinth., Zool. Ereb. and Terr. Rept., p. 



13. 



Description. — " The distance between the end of the snout 

 and the fore-limb is contained once and two-fifths to once and 

 three-fourths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 

 short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with a very large transparent disk, 

 nearly the whole of the eye being visible when the lid is closed. 

 Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal • frontonasal broader 

 than long, forming a suture with the rostral and with the 



