78 Proceedi)igs of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



enlarged. The adpressed limbs overlap, meet, or fail to meet. 

 Digits cylindrical ; subdigital lamellje smooth, twenty to twenty- 

 six under the fourth toe. Tail about once and two-thirds the 

 length of head and body. Colour. — Bronzy-olive or brownish 

 above, with or without small darker and lighter spots ; vertebral 

 region sometimes darker ; a dark-brown lateral band, edged 

 above and below by a light streak ; greenish-white inferiorly 

 sometimes with blackish dots. 



•Boulenger. 



Habits. — Usually found running about amongst the grass and 

 herbage on dry sandy ground and stony hill sides. Soon becomes 

 tame in captivity and will feed readily on flies, caterpillars, 

 worms, bits of bread and potato. 



Mode of reproduction. — Oviparous ; eggs oval, three, laid in the 

 ground. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Melbourne, Ringwood, Upper Yarra, 

 Mitta Mitta (Melb. Mus.) ; Kew, Ringwood, Carrum, Loch, 

 Myrniong, Healesville, Beaconsfield, Fei'ntree Gully, Grampians 

 (L. and F.) 



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

 West Australia. 



LiOLEPiSMA PRETIOSUM, O'Shaughn. 



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

 1874, p. 298. 



viicrolepidota., O'Shaughn., I.e., p. 299. 



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

 the fore-limb is contained once and two-fifths 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 



