1. EGEENIA. 



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adpressed limbs overlap. Digits moderate. Tail C5Mindrioal, a little 

 longer than head and body ; upper caudal scales keeled like the 

 dorsals. Blackish olive with yellowish spots, or olive with light 

 and black spots above ; lower surfaces yellowish, uniform or spotted 

 with black. 



inillim. 



Total length 475 



.. 42 

 .. 32 

 .. 168 



Head 



"Width of head 

 Body 



millim. 



Fore limb 55 



Hind limb 76 



Tail 265 



Western and Southern Australia. 



a. Ad. 



i. Ad., stuffed. 



cAd. 



d, e. Yg. 



f-h. Hgr. 



i, k. Ad., stuffed. 



/. Hgr., stuffed. 



m, n. Ad. & hgi'., 



stuffed. 

 o. Ad. 

 /?. Hgr. 

 y. Ad. 

 r-v. Hgr. & yg. 



Australia. 

 Australia. 



Australia. 

 Australia. 

 Australia. 

 W. Australia. 

 Dirk Hartog Island. 

 Iloutman's Abrolhos. 



Houtman's Abrolhos. 

 Swan River. 

 Swan River. 

 S. Australia. 



Capt. P. P. King [P.]. (Type.) 

 (Type of Tropidolepisina niti- 

 du7n.) 



Dr. Fleming [P.]. 

 G. lirefft, Esq. [P.]. 



H.M.S. 'Herald.' 



Mr. Gilbert [C.]. 



I\Ir. Gilbert [C.]. 

 .7. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



Dr. Fletcher [P.]. 



7. Egernia cmmiiigliami. 



Egernia cunninghami, Gray, Cat. p. 105. 

 Tiliqua cunninghami, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 40. 

 Egernia cunninghami, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 288, and in 



Stokes, Discov. in Austral, i. p. 490, pi. ii. 

 Tropidolepisma cunninghami, A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Hept. p. 177. 

 Egernia krefftii, Feters, Mm. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 30. 



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

 nasal in contact with the rostral ; prsefrontals usually forming a 

 median suture ; frontal not twice as long as broad, as large as or a 

 little larger than the interparietal ; four or five supraoculars, second 

 largest ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; sixth and seventh, or seventh 

 and eighth upper labials entering the orbit ; two to four pairs of 

 nuchals. Ear-opening as large as, or a little larger than, the eye- 

 opening, with four or five pointed lobules anteriorly. IS^uchal scales 

 pluricarinate, dorsals and laterals sharply unicarinate, ending in a 

 point, the keel and the point becoming stronger towards the tail ; 

 dorsal scales largest, laterals smallest ; 36 to 42 scales round the 

 middle of the body. The adpressed limbs largely overlap. Digits 

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

 upper caudal scales strongly unicarinate, ending in a spine. Dark 

 olive above, with black marblings or irregular cross bands, with or 

 without light dots ; head-shields usually edged with black ; lower 



