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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, broadly in 

 contact with the rostral, praef rontals, inner angles touching ; 

 frontal much shorter and narrower than the frontoparietal, in 

 contact with the first and second supraoculars; four supraoculars; 

 seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single, followed by a minute 

 interparietal ; parietals forming a median suture ; a pair of 

 nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; four labials 

 anterior to the subocular. Ear-opening oval, smaller than the 

 transparent palpebral disk, with a short obtuse lobule anteriorly. 

 Thirty-four scales round the middle of the body, all perfectly 

 smooth ; doi'sals largest, laterals smallest. Prfeanal scales not 

 enlarged. The hind-limb reaches the wrist. Fingers four, toes 

 five ; subdigital lamellae smooth, twenty under the fourth toe. 

 Tail a little longer than head and body." d^/c'/zr. — Olive-brown 

 above, head with a few black specks ; five interrupted black lines 

 along the middle of the back, the median extending all along the 

 tail, each alternate scale along the line being streaked with the 

 pale ground colour, the black lines on the back often merged into 

 a single broad band, within the area of which, alternate scales 

 are streaked with the pale ground colour ; a dorso-lateral series of 

 black dots, separated from the median dorsal lines by a band of 

 pale' ground colour ; sides immaculate, with two bright rosy- 

 carmine (dull yellow in spirit specimens) stripes, the lower of 

 which extends from axilla to groin, lower surfaces greenish. 



Total length ... ... 117 mm. 



Head 14 



Width of head 10 



Body 41 



Fore-limb 16 



Hind-limb 22 



Tail 62 



Habits. — This elegant little lizard is found amongst the grass 

 and herbage on the dry, open plains near the Murray. Food 

 consists of insects, chiefly locusts and grasshoppers. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Brown's Plains, Barnawartha. 



Range outside Victoria. — New South Wales, Queensland. 



