Lucas and Frost. — On Neiv Zealand Lizards. 277 



centre of the eye. Ear-opening roundish or oval, much 

 larger than the transparent palpebral disk ; usually with one 

 or two projecting granules or small lobules ; twenty-eight to 

 thirty-two smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals 

 largest. Praeanal scales not or scarcely enlarged. The ad- 

 pressed limbs meet or fail to meet. Digits moderately long, 

 subcylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, twenty to twenty- 

 ■eight under the fourth toe. Tail once and one-fourth to once 

 and two-thirds as long as head and body. Brown or olive 

 above, with a more or less regular, black-edged, light dorso- 

 lateral streak; back uniform, or spotted with blackish and 

 yellowish, or with three dark-brown, black-edged, longitudinal 

 lines ; usually a yellowish black-edged streak on the upper 

 lip to the ear, another from the ear to the groin, a third on 

 the anterior face of the fore-limb, and a fourth on the hinder 

 side of the hind-limb ; lower surfaces yellowish, greyish, or 

 pale-olive, uniform or black-spotted. 



"Total length, 176mm.; head, 13mm.; width of head, 

 9mm. ; body, 61mm. ; fore-limb, 18mm. ; hind-limb, 26mm. ; 

 tail, 102mm." Boulcnger. 



Habits. — Found under stones and logs, both in the bush 

 and open country. Hutton. 



Distribution. — Common throughout the Islands. Hutton.^ 



Liolepisma lineo-ocellatum, A. Dum. 

 Lygosoma lineo-oceUata, A. Dum., Cat. Meth. Eept., p. 169; 



Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1873, p. 745. Mocoa zealandica , 



part, Giinth., Zool. " Ereb." and "Terr.," Rept., p. 13. 



Lygosoma (Liolepisma) lineo-ocellatum, A. Dum., Boulenger 



Cat., p. 273. 



" Very closely allied to L. moco ; larger, stouter. Eostral 

 slightly broader than deep, more produced superiorly. Thirty- 

 two to thirty-six scales round the body. Coloration very 

 similar to that of Chalcides ocellatus. Back pale-brown or 

 greyish-olive, with small black spots or ocelli with white 

 centre ; a more or less marked whitish dorso-lateral band, 

 beginning on the nape ; sides variegated with blackish or 

 blackish dotted with white ; lower surfaces greyish, throat 

 and breast black-spotted. 



"Total length, 205mm.; head, 17mm.; width of head, 

 13mm.; body, 73mm.; fore-limb, 25mm.; hind-limb, 32mm.; 

 tail, 115mm." Boulenger. 



Distribution. — South Island ; also Stephens Island. Hut- 

 ton. 



Liolepisma smithii, Gray. 



Mocoa smithii, Gray, Cat., p. 82. Lygosomella cestuosa, 

 Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp., p. 251, pi. xxvii., 

 figs. 1-8. Eupxpes smithii, Steindachner, " Novara " 



