138 SCINCID^. 



5. Egernia striolata. 



Tropidolepisma striolatiim, Peters, Mon. Beii. Ac. 1870, p. 042. 



Head moderate. A curved groove behind the nostril ; fronto- 

 nasal in contact with the rostral ; praefrontals forming a median 

 suture ; frontal not twice as long as broad, as large as or smaller 

 than the interparietal ; four supraoculars, second largest ; seven 

 supraciliaries ; fifth or sixth upper labial entering the orbit ; two 

 or three jjairs of nuchals. Ear-opening as large as the eye-opening, 

 with three pointed lobules anteriorly. 28 to 32 scales round the 

 middle of the body ; dorsals largest, quadri- or (luinquecarinato, 

 laterals smallest, tricarinate. The adpressed limbs overlap. Digits 

 moderate. Tail cylindrical, a little longer than head and body ; a 

 series of large, transversely dilated scales on the upper as well as on 

 the lower surface of the tail, the former pluricarinate. Brown 

 above, with lighter dots and a lighter dorso-lateral band ; longitu- 

 dinal, more or less confluent blackish streaks on the vertebral 

 region ; a blackish lateral band ; upper head-shields black-edged ; 

 labials yellowish, black-edged ; lower surfaces yellowish or greyish, 

 throat spotted or reticulated with blackish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 190 Fore limb 27 



Head 21 Hind limb 36 



Width of head .... 15 Tail 100 



Body 69 



Queensland. 



a. Yg. Gayndali. Museum Godeffroy. 



b. Yg. Northern Queensland. G. Krefft, Esq. [P." 



c. Ad. Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. [P. 



6. Egernia kingii. 



Tropidolepisma kingii, Gray, Cat. p. 106. 



nitida, Gray, I. c. 



Tiliqua kingii, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 290. 



uapoleonis. Gray, I. c. 



Tropidolepisma dumerilii, Dum. ^- Bibr. v. p. 745, pi. 1. 

 Tropidolepisma uitida, Gray, Zool. JEreb. 4" Terr,, Rept. pi. xii. 

 kingii, Gray, I. e. pi. xiii. 



Head moderate. A curved groove behind the nostril ; fronto- 

 nasal in contact with the rostral ; prcefrontals usually forming a 

 median suture ; frontal not twice as long as broad, not or but 

 slightly longer than the interparic^tal ; four or five supraoculars, 

 second largest ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; sixth or seventh labial 

 entering the oi-bit ; two to four pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening about 

 as large as the cj'c-opcning, with three or four pointed lobules 

 anteriorly. 36 to 40 scales round the middle of the body, laterals 

 smallest, dorsals more or less strongly })i- or tricarinate. The 



