TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 11 



Total length 133 mm. 



Head 11 „ 



Width of head 8 „ 



Body 42 „ 



Fore-hmb 14 ,, 



Hind-lunb 19 „ 



Tail 80 „ " — Boulenger. 



Habits. — Usually found moving about in open scrub country. 

 Food, insects and worms. 



Distribution.— Victoria.: Port Albert (Melb. Mus.); Melbourne, 

 Croajingolong (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Tasmania, Kangaroo Island, Loyalty 

 Islands, New Hebrides. 



LiOLEPiSMA GUiCHENOTi, Dum. and Bibr. 



Mocoa guichenoti, Gray, Cat., p. 80. 



Mocoa trilineata, part.. Gray, I.e., p. 81. 



Lygosoma guichenoti., Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 713. 



(Mocoa) guttulatuni, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. ISTaturf. 



Freunde, 1881, p. 83. 



( ) platytiotuin, Peters, I.e., p. 84. 



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

 the fore-limb is contained once and one-third 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, which is quite lateral ; no supra- 

 nasal ; frontonasal forming a broad suture with the rostral, the 

 width of which suture equals the width of the frontal, and a 

 narrower one with the frontal ; latter shield narrower and not 

 longer than the frontoparietal, in contact with the two anterior 

 supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; seven or eight 

 supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single ; a 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 projecting lobules. Twenty- 

 six to thirty scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest 

 and sometimes feebly striated. Pr^eanals not or but feebly 



