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eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in 

 the centre of the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader 

 than long, forming a suture with the rostral and with the 

 frontal ; prefrontals small ; frontal a little shorter than fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven supracili- 

 aries ; frontoparietals distinct, as long as or a little longer than 

 the interparietal ; parietals in contact behind the interparietal ; 

 a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals. 

 Ear-opening roundish, hardly as large as the transparent 

 palpebral disk. Twenty-six or twenty-eight scales round the 

 body; dorsals largest and more or less distinctly striated. 

 Prasanal scales not or scarcely enlarged. Limbs short, widely 

 separated where adpressed. Digits cylindrical; subdigital 

 lamellae smooth, sixteen to eighteen under the fourth toe. 

 Brown above, with a few darker dots; a dark-brown 

 irregular dorso-lateral streak, edged above with yellowish ; 

 flanks with light dark-edged spots ; lips mottled with dark- 

 brown ; throat spotted with dark-brown. 



" From snout to vent, 59mm. ; head, 11mm. ; width of 

 head, 7"5mm. ; fore-limb, 12mm. ; hind-limb, 17mm." Bou- 

 lenger. 



The tail is thick and short, as in the next species. 

 Hutton. 



F. Werner has recently described a species, Liolejjisma 

 micans, in the Verhandlungeu d. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesell- 

 schaft in Wien, vol. xlv., p. 13. It is founded on a single 

 specimen. From the description we can see no reason for 

 not including it under L. ceneum. 



Distribution. — Both Islands, and Stephens Island. 

 Hutton. 



Sub-genus Homolepida, Gray. 



Limbs short, the hind-lirab not measuring more than the 

 distance between the anterior corner of the eye and the fore- 

 limb, pentadactyle. Lower eyelid scaly. Tympanum dis- 

 tinct. No supranasals. Praefrontals well developed. Frontal 

 not broader than the supraocular region. 



Homolepida ornatuin, Gray. 



Hinulia ornata, part. Gray, Cat., p. 77. Tiliqua ornata, 

 Gray, in Dieffenbach's "New Zealand," ii., p. 202. 

 EiLprev2S ornatics, Steind., " Novara " Eept., p. 49. Lygo- 

 soma ornatum, Boulenger, Cat. iii., p. 317, pi. xxxii., 

 fig. 1. 



" Habit lacertiform, rather stout ; the distance between the 

 end of the snout and the fore-limb is contained once and two- 

 fifths to once and two-thirds in the distance between axilla. 



