The Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 81 



Lygosoma. 



Sub-genus Emoa, Gray. 



Limbs well developed, pentadactyle, overlapping when 

 adpressed. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Supranasals present. 



Emoa spenceri, sp. nov. 

 (Plate 2, fig. 1, la.) 

 Description. — Head and body slightly depressed. Limbs well 

 developed, pentadactyle. The distance between the end of the 

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

 distance between axilla and groin. Snout obtusely pointed. 

 Eai'-opening about midway between the end of the snout and the 

 fore-limb ; eye about midway between the ear-opening and the 

 tip of the snout. Lower eyelid with a very large transparent 

 disk, nearly as large as the eye. Nostril pierced in a small nasal. 

 Supranasals narrow, widely separated by the frontonasal ; a 

 naiTOW postnasal often fused with the supranasal ; frontonasal 

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

 with the frontal ; prpefrontals well developed ; frontal slightly 

 longer than the frontoparietals, in contact with the first and 

 second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second much the largest ; 

 seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct ; 

 parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of 

 nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; seventh 

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

 oblique, smaller than the transparent palpebral disk, with three 

 or four small lobules anteriorly. Eorty-two to forty-four smooth 

 scales round the middle of the body, dorsals largest, especially the 

 two vertebral series, laterals smallest. A marginal row of 

 slightly enlarged prteanals. The adpressed limbs slightly over- 

 lap. Digits moderate, slightly compressed ; subdigital lamella^ 

 smooth, about twenty-two under the fourth toe. Tail slightly 

 longer than head and body. Colour. — Dark-brown above with 

 pale greenish-white markings of which the most constant is a dorso- 

 lateral band commencing above the eye and lost on the tail ; 

 usually with regular longitudinal series of light spots ; sides 

 blackish-brown light dotted, a narrow longitudinal line of the 



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