140 



SCINCID^. 



surfaces ■wliitish or pale olive ; throat bluish grey, or spotted and 

 marbled with black j belly immaculate, or scantUy spotted with 

 black. 



millim. 



Total length 330 



Head 35 



Width of head 25 



Body 115 



Australia. 



millim. 



Fore limb 4G 



Hind limb G2 



Tail 180 



A. Cunningham, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type.) 

 J. Brazier, Esq. [P.]. 

 G. Krefl't, Esq. [P.]. 

 Prof. A. M. Thomson [P.]. 

 G. Ivrefi"t, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Egernia stokesii. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Siluhosaurus stokesii. Gray, Cat. p. 104. 

 Silubosaurus stoLesii, A. Dtmi. Cat. Meth. liept. p. 180 ; Gray, in 



SfvIii'S, Discov. in Austral, i. p. 499, pi. i. 

 ? Siluhosaurus zellingi, Be Vis, Froc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. i. 1884, 



p. 53. 



Head rather small. A curved groove behind the nostril, often 

 completely dividing the nasal ; frontonasal in contact with the 

 rostral ; praefrontals forming a median suture ; frontal not twice 

 as long as broad, a little larger than the interparietal ; four or five 

 supraoculars, second largest ; six or seven supraciliaries ; fifth or 

 sixth upper labial entering the orbit ; one to torn" pairs of nuchals. 

 Ear-opening a little larger than the eye-opening, with two or three 

 large triangular lobules. Anterior dorsal scales sharply bi- or tri- 

 carinate, posterior uni- or bicarinate, spinose, the spines becoming 

 stronger towards the tail ; the scales of the two median dorsal 

 series broader than the others ; 32 or 34 scales round the middle 

 of the body. The adpressed limbs fail to meet, or just meet, in the 

 adult, slightly overlap in the young. Digits short. Tail much shorter 

 than the body, much depressed, the scales, especially the laterals, 

 ending in a strong spine obliquely directed upwards ; these spines 

 form eight longitudinal series. Brown above, with irregular pale olive 

 and blackish spots ; head-shields edged with blackish ; lower surfaces 

 pale olive, or brown with pale olive euots. One of the specimens 

 is uniform blackish brown. 



millim. 



Total length 275 



Head 31 



Width of head 29 



Body 181 



Western Australia. 



millim. 



lore limb 50 



Hind limb 55 



Tail 63 



