TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 85 



No supranasals. Prsef rentals (in species with short limbs) 

 minute or absent. Frontal not broader than the supraocular 

 region. 



SlAPHOS MACCOYI, Sp. nOV. 

 (Plate 2, fig. 2. 2a.) 



Description. — Body much elongate, limbs weak, pentadactyle ; 

 the distance between the end of the snout and the fore-limb is 

 contained about three times in the distance between axilla and 

 groin. Snout short, obtusely pointed. Lower eyelid with an 

 undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal very broad, forming a broad straight 

 suture with the rostral, and a curved one with the frontal ; prse- 

 frontals absent ; frontal not longer than the frontoparietals, in 

 contact with the first and second supraoculars ; five supraoculars, 

 second largest ; seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal distinct ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 

 parietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the 

 parietals ; fourth upper labial below the centre of the eye. Ear 

 opening distinct, minute. Twenty smooth scales round the middle 

 of the body. Prteanals not enlarged. The length of the hind- 

 limb scarcely equals the distance between the centre of the eye 

 and the fore-limb. Fourth toe not longer than the third, with 

 six or seven smooth lamellae inferiorly. Colour. — Brown or 

 greyish-brown above, each dorsal scale with three or four minute 

 dark longitudinal lines ; a more or less distinct black dorso- 

 lateral line extending from the eye to the base of the tail ; 

 ground colour of lateral scales brownish, or greyish, sometimes 

 nearly white, each with irregular minute darker streaks ; throat 

 ivory-white spotted with brown j^belly bright-yellow immaculate ; 

 under surface of tail bright-yellow, more or less covered -with 

 blackish-brown blotches. 



