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frontal ; latter shield as long as or a little shorter than fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first and 

 second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; five or 

 six supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, longer than the inter- 

 parietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; 

 two or three paii's of nuchals ; fifth, rarely sixth, upper labial 

 largest and entering the orbit. Ear-opening roundish, smaller 

 than the transparent palpebral disk, without distinct lobules. 

 Twenty-eight to thirty-two scales round the middle of the body ; 

 dorsals largest and usually more or less distinctly striated or 

 obtusely pluricarinate. Prseanals not or scarcely enlarged. The 

 adpressed limbs usually meet or overlap. Digits cylindrical ; 

 subdigital lamellse smooth, seventeen to twenty under the fourth 

 toe. Tail once and one-third to once and two-thirds the length 

 of head and body." Colour. — Olive above, with three black longi- 

 tudinal bands, laterals broadest and edged above and below by a 

 light streak ; in some specimens both bands and streaks are 

 absent, in which case the ground colour is much lighter and more 

 or less spotted with dark brown or black. Lower surfaces greyish 

 or greenish, sometimes dull reddish-orange. 



Total length 124 mm. 



Head 10 „ 



Width of head 7 „ 



Body 41 „ 



Fore-limb ... ... 14 ,, 



Hind-limb 18 „ 



Tail 73 „ 



Habits. — Usually met with amongst the grass and herbage in 

 open scrubby districts. Movements very quick. 



Mode of reproduction — Oviparous, eggs oval, three to five laid 

 in January. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Melbourne (Melb. Mus.) ; Sandring- 

 ham, Carrum, Tynong, Mt. Baw Baw (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Tasmania. 



LlOLEPISMA TRILINEATUM, Gray. 



Mocoa trilifieata, part.. Gray, Cat., p. 81. 



Tiliqtia trilineaia, Gray, Ann. N.H., ii., 1838, p. 291. 



