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tympanum more or less smik. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; 

 supranasals present or absent. Limbs more or less developed, 

 rudimentary, or absent. 



There are over a hundred and fifty known species belong- 

 ing to this genus, which extends over the whole of Australia, 

 East Indies, China, North and Central xlmerica, tropical and 

 .South Africa. 



Sub-genus Liolepisma, Dum. and Bibr. 

 Limbs well developed ; the length of the hind-limb ex- 

 ceeds the distance between the centre of the eye and the fore- 

 limb. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. 

 Tympanum distinct. No supranasals. Eostral forming a 

 suture with the fi'ontouasal. Frontal not broader than the 

 supraocular region. One or more pairs of enlarged nuchals. 



Liolepisma grande, Gray. 

 Mocoa grandis, Gray, Cat., p. 272. Mocoa(!) laxa, Hutton, 

 T.N.Z.I., iv., 1872, p. 169. Lygosoma (Mocoa) nigriplan- 

 tare, Peters, Mon, Berl. Ac, 1873, p. 744. Lygosoma 

 (Liolepisma) grande, Gray, Boulenger Cat., iii., p. 271, 

 pi. XX., fig. 3. 



" Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore-limb is contained once and one-fourth to 

 once and tv,'o-thirds in the distance between axilla and groin. 

 Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided 

 transparent disk. Nostril pierced in a single nasal ; 1:10 supra- 

 nasal ; frontonasal broader than long, in contact with the 

 rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield as long as fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven or eight 

 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, a little longer than the 

 interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the inter- 

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

 parietals ; sixth upper labial below the centre of the eye. 

 Ear-opening oval, a little smaller than the eye-opening, with 

 a few projecting granules anteriorly. Forty to fifty smooth 

 scales round the middle of the body : laterals smallest. Prge- 

 anals scarcely enlarged. The hind-limb reaches the wrist in 

 the adult, nearly to the axilla in the young. Digits mode- 

 rately elongate, subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 

 twenty-eight or twenty-nine under the fourth toe. Tail about 

 once and a half the length of head and body. Black above, 

 spotted all over with pale-olive or olive dotted with black ; 

 lower surfaces greenish or pale-olive. 



"Total length (tail reproduced), 215mm,; head, 20mm.; 

 width of head, 14mm.; body, 84mm.; fore-limb, 30mm.; 

 hind-limb, 42mm." Boulenger. 



