76 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Melbourne, Ringwood, Keilor, Brandy 

 Creek, Western Port, Western District (Melb. Mus.) ; Melbourne^ 

 Kew, Carrum, Myrniong, Castlemaine, Grampians (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Kent Group, Tasmania, New South 

 Wales, West Australia. 



LlOLEPISMA METALLICUM, O'ShaUghn. 



Mocoa ocellata, part.. Gray, Cat., p. 82. 



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

 1874, p. 299. 



Description. — " Tlie distance between the end of the snout and 

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

 thirds in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader 

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

 frontal ; latter shield shorter than frontoparietal and interparietal 

 together ; in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four 

 supraoculars, second largest ; six or seven supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietal single (in one specimen divided) ; interparietal distinct ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of 

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

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

 large as or a little larger than the transparent palpebi'al disk, 

 without distinct lobules. Twenty-four to twenty-eight scales 

 round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest and usually more 

 or less distinctly striated or pluricarinate. Pneanals not or but 

 feebly enlarged. The adpressed limbs meet or slightly overlap. 

 Digits cylindrical • subdigital lamellfe smooth eighteen to twenty- 

 two under the fourth toe. Tail about once and a half the length 

 of head and body. Colour. — Bronzy-olive above, with small dark- 

 brown spots, sometimes with a dark-brown vertebral streak ; 

 sides dark-brown, light-dotted, often with a more or less distinct 

 light streak from ear to groin ; lower surfaces greenish or greyish, 

 uniform or with darker dots. 



