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Habits. — Usually met with under logs and flat stones in moist 

 places. Movements very slow. 



Mode of reproduction. — Young developed within the body of 

 the parent, eight or nine being brought forth in January or 

 February. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Brandy Creek, Trafalgar, Waterloo, 

 Lakes Entrance, Ferntree Gully, Fernshaw, Dandenong Ranges, 

 Goulburn Valley (Melb. Mus.) ; Ringwood, Dandenong Ranges, 

 Berwick, Plenty Ranges, Upper Yarra, Croajingolong, North 

 and South Gippsland (L. and F.). 



We have named this graceful little lizard after Sir Frederick 

 McCoy, K.C.M.G., &c., through whose kindness and courtesy we 

 have been able to examine a large number of specimens preserved 

 in the National Museum of Victoria. 



Lygosoma. 



Sub-getius Rhodona, Gray. 



Limbs short or rudimentary. Lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk. Ear distinct, minute. No supranasals. Prfefrontals 

 very small and widely separated, or absent. Frontal not broader 

 than the supraocular region. 



Rhodona bougainvillii. Gray. 



Lygosoma l>ougainvillii, Gray, Cat., p. 85. 



Riopa bougainvillii, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N.H., ii., 1839, p. 

 332. 



Lygosoma bougainvillii., Dum. and Bibr., v., p. 716; Giinth., 

 Zool. Ereb. and Terr. Rept., p. 43. 



laterale, (non Say), Giinth., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (3), 



XX., 1867, p. 46. 



Description. — "Body much elongate, limbs weak; the distance 

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

 twice to twice and a half in the distance between axilla and 

 groin. Snout moderate, obtusely conical. Lower eyelid with an 

 undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in a rather large 

 nasal, which is in contact with its fellow, frontonasal large, 

 broadly in contact with the rostral ; praefrontals small, and 



