TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 79 



suture with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield a little 

 shorter than frontoparietal and interparietal together, 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 ; tifth 

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

 larger than the transparent palpebral disk. Thirty-four to 

 thirty-eight scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest, 

 striated or feebly pluricarinate, pr^eanals not enlarged. The 

 adpressed limbs meet or overlap. Digits cylindrical ; subdigital 

 lamellfe smooth, twenty to twenty-two under the fourth toe. 

 Tail a little longer than head and body." Colour. — Olive-brown 

 above with small darker and lighter spots, a blackish light dotted 

 lateral band extending from the eye to the groin, often edged 

 above with pale-brown ; a blackish vertebral streak may be 

 present ; lower surfaces greenish or greyish-salmon, lips and 

 throat black dotted. 



Total length 119 mm. 



Head 11 



Width of head 8 



Body 43 



Fore-limb 16 



Hind-limb 22 



Tail 65 



Habits. — Met with under logs and stones in moist and thickly 

 timbered country and dense gullies. 



Mode of reproduction. — Young developed within the body of 

 the parent ; three brought forth in January or February. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Upper Yarra, Mount Baw Baw, South 

 Gippsland. 



Range outside Victoria. — Tasmania, Kent Group. 



LlOLEPISxMA TETRADACTYLUM, O'Shaughn. 



Mocoa tetrndactyla, O'Shaughn., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (5), iv., 

 1879, p. 300. 



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

 the fore-limb is contained once and one-third in the distance 



