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is the giaut of Australian skinks and grows to over 2 feet in length. It is quite 

 common at Tambourine, and may be frequently seen in or near other mountainous 

 rain-forests in South-Eastern Queensland. As it seldom ventures far from its 

 haunts in the hollows of large logs on the ground, specimens are not easy to 

 obtain. It is structurally allied to Egernia major, as pointed out by De Vis, 

 and iu the number, proportions, and dispositions of the head shields and body 

 scales it is difficult to iind distinctions. An azygous nuchal shield, in contact 

 with the interparietal, is present in both oiir specimens of E. bungana and is 

 absent in our series of E. major, but .shields in this region are often variable. 

 E. 'bungana, however, is strikingly distinct because of its colouration, its habitat, 

 and the larger size of adults. The entire dorsal and dorsal-lateral surface is a 

 iiniform shining black; near to the ventral region this merges to a bi'ownish 

 tint, and the ventral surface is yellow, with the exception of the throat which is 

 salmon colour. The eyelids are yellowish white, and the tongue is bluish. 

 Several j'oung specimens seen were also of a shining black colour above. Because 

 of its large black scales this lizard has received at Tambourine the curious name 

 of "Land Mullet." It has the habit of lying out on logs in the sunlight, 

 especially after wet weather. A specimen, 22 inches in length, was chopped out 

 of a hollow log by the writer. In captivity it thrives well on raw meat. "When 

 handled or approached it gives out vigorous blasts of breath, the bellow-like 

 movement of. the body being somewhat remarkable. The specific term is derived 

 from its aboriginal name. 



LYGOSOMA (LIOLEPISMA) SPECTABILE (De Vis).' 



Six specimens which agree well with this species were collected by the 

 writer at Tambourine Mountain in April 1917. In regard to the proportions 

 of the tail the original description needs amending, as it is more than half as 

 long again as the head and body, l)oth in the type and in our later specimens. 

 L. spcclahile may be distinguished from L. vuistelinum, apart from certain 

 differences in colouration, by the greater number of lamella? under the fourth toe. 



LYGOSOMA (HINULIA) TRYONI, sp. in. v. 



Habit laccrtironii : limbs jx'Utadactylc ; the distance between the end 

 of tiic snout and the fore limb is contained one and one-half times in the distance 

 between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse; lower eyelid scaly; nostril in a 

 single nasal, followed by a scries of loreals, which are not superposed; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal l)r()adcr than long, forming a wide suture with the rostral 

 and a narrower one with the frontal ; latter a little shorter than the frontoparietal 

 and interparietal together, in contact with the first two supraoculars; four 

 supraoculars, second largest, and in addition there is a small shield not serially 

 aligner] with cither the supraoculai's or the supi'aciliarics ; eight supraeiliaries ; 

 frontoparietals and intei'parietais distinct; the i)arietals form a suture behind; 

 two pairs of enlarged nuchals; parietal bordered laterally by a large shield; 



» Loc. cit., p. 819. 



