The Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 87 



widely separated ; frontal broader than the supraocular region, 

 longer than the frontoparietals and interparietal together ; in 

 contact with the tii'st and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 

 second largest ; fourth very small ; six supraciliaries ; fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal distinct, sub-equal ; parietals forming 

 a suture behind the interparietal ; two or four pairs of nuchals ; 

 fifth upper labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening minute, not 

 or scarcely larger than the nostril. Twenty-two or twenty-four 

 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest. A 

 pair of large prteanals. The length of the hind-limb equals the 

 distance between the nostril and the fore-limb ; toes slender, 

 slightly compressed, fourth much longer than third ; subdigital 

 lamellae feebly keeled, fifteen to eighteen under the fourth toe. 

 Tail slightly longer than head and body. Colour. — Greyish 

 above, with blackish dots or short lines along the series of scales ; 

 a black lateral band, passing through the eye ; flanks white, 

 black dotted ; lower surfaces white. 



Habits, — Met with under logs and stones in moist places, where 

 they frequently make excavations in the ground. Movements 

 slow. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Melbourne, Keilor, Pyramid Hill, 

 Western District (Melb. Mus.); Carrum, Bacchus Marsh, Castle- 

 maine, Grampians, Beech worth, Mt. Stanley (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — South Australia, Kangaroo Island. 



Rhodona punctatovittata, Gunth. 



Rhodona punctatovittata, Giinth., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (3), 

 XX., 1867, p. 47. 



officeri, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., dec. vi., pi. li. 



Description. — " Body much elongate ; limbs very weak, anterior 

 monodactyle, posterior didactyle ; the distance between the end 



