Tlie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 83 



no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a narrow 

 suture with tlie rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield 

 scarcely longer than the interparietal ; in contact with the first 

 and second supraoculars; four supraoculars, second largest; seven 

 or eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, nearly as long as 

 the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 

 parietal ; two or three pairs of nuchals ; fifth upper labial below 

 the centre of the eye, from which it is separated by a series of 

 suboculars. Ear covered with scales, indicated by a depression. 

 Eighteen or twenty smooth scales round the middle of the body ; 

 dorsals largest. A pair of enlarged pneanals. The length of the 

 hind-limb equals the distance between the centre of the eye and 

 the fore-limb ; third toe longest. Tail thick, once and a half to 

 once and two-thirds the length of head and body. Colour. — Pale- 

 brown or golden above, with or without minute brown dots ; a 

 black dorso-lateral line ; sides grey, speckled with black ; lower 

 surfaces whitish, black spotted. 



-Boulenger. 



Habits. — Found under logs and flat stones on the hillsides and 

 in gullies. Movements very slow. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Dandenong Ranges (Melb. Mus.). 

 Range outside Victoria. — Kangaroo Island, Albany. 



Hemiergis decresiensis. Gray. 



Hemiergis decresiensis. Gray, Cat., pp. 87 and 272. 



Zygnis decresiensis, Fitzing, N. Class, Rept., p. 53. 



Tridactylus decresiensis, Cuv. R.A., 2nd. ed., 64 ; Gray, 

 Griff. A.K., ix., Syn., p. 72. 



Hemiergis decresiensis, Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 766 ; Gray, Zool. 

 Ereb. and Terr. Rept., pi. vi., tig. 5, 



decresiensis, part., Steind, No vara, Rept., p. 50. 



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