12 BSCKOTSIDJE. 



1. Rhynchcedura omata. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 

 Rhynchcedura omata, Criinth. I. c. p. 51. 



Head resembling that of a young bird, high, the snout pointed 

 and compressed, beak-like ; the length of the snout equals the 

 diameter of the orbit, and is much more than the distance between 

 the latter and the very small, roundish ear-opening ; the upper eye- 

 lid is broad, and may cover a good part of the eye. Body rather 

 elongate, scarcely depressed. Limbs moderately elongate ; the digits 

 are rather slender, and the outer toe inserted far down. Head and 

 body covered with small granules, from which the labials can hardly 

 be distinguished, smallest on the throat, largest, flattened and sub- 

 imbricate on the belly ; enlarged scales before and behind the vent. 

 Nostrils large, pierced between granules ; rostral and mental small, 

 nail-like, prominent, forming two small hooks. Tail short, rounded, 

 swollen, covered with rings of smooth square scales. Light greyish- 

 brown above, with round, faint, whitish spots ; each side with con- 

 fluent blackish-brown half rings ; a blackish-brown band across the 

 occiput ; lower parts white. 



North-western Australia. 

 a. 2 ? Nicol Bay. Mr. Duboulay [0.]. (Type.) 



4. TERATOSCINCUS. 



Teratoscincus, Stratich, Bull. Ac. St. Peter sb. vi. 1863, p. 480, and 

 M41. Biol. vi. 1867, p. 553. 



Digits not dilated, furnished with a long claw, depressed, with a 

 lateral fringe of long pointed scales, covered inferiorly with minute 

 granular scales. Body covered with uniform largo cycloid imbri- 

 cated scales. Pupil vertical. No praeanal nor femoral pores. 



Persia ; Turkestan. 



1. Teratoscincus scincns. (Plate II. fig. 3.*) 



Stenodactylus scincus, Schleg. Hand I. Dierk. ii. p. 16. 

 Teratoscincus keyserlingii, Strauch, I. c. ; Blanford, 2nd York. Miss., 

 Rept. p. 11. 



Head large, high ; snout obtuse, slightly longer than the diameter 

 of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; 

 eye large; ear-opening large, elliptic, oblique, three fifths the 



* Lower surface of fourth toe, x 4. 



