TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 75 



Lygosoina diiperreyi, Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 715 ; A. Dum., 

 Cat. Meth. Rept., p. 167. 



E^iprepes dtiperreyi, Steind. Novara, Rept., p. 47. 



Description — " Body much elongate ; the distance between the 

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

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

 Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans- 

 parent disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; 

 frontonasal forming a suture with the rostral, the width of which 

 suture is considerably less than the width of the frontal, and a 

 narrower one with the frontal ; latter shield as long as, or shorter 

 than, the frontoparietal, in contact with the two anterior supra- 

 oculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; five or six supra- 

 ciliaries ; frontoparietal single (rarely divided) ; a very small 

 interparietal, behind which the parietals form a suture ; a pair of 

 nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fifth upper 

 labial largest and entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, about as 

 large as the transparent palpebral disk, without or with one or two 

 obtuse lobules. Twenty-six or t?wenty-eight scales round the 

 middle of the body; dorsals largest and sometimes feebly striated. 

 Prfeanals not or scarcely enlarged. The adpressed limbs usually 

 fail to meet. Digits cylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 

 nineteen to twenty-three under the fourth toe. Tail once and 

 one-third to once and three-fourths the length of head and body. 

 Colour. — Bronzy-olive above, with a black, light-edged lateral 

 band; frequently the light lateral streaks are again edged with 

 black, and a vertebral black streak is present; lower surfaces 

 grayish or greenish white. 



Habits. — Habits similar to Z. entrecasteauxii, to which it is very 

 closely allied. 



