4. IILIQUA. '145 



supraciliarics ; interparietal as broad as or narrower than the 

 parietals ; scales on the occiput broader than long ; anterior tem- 

 porals much larger than the others, at least as long as the inter- 

 parietal ; car-opening about as large as the e3'e-opening, with two 

 or three large, obtuse projecting lobules on the anterior border. 

 Scales subequal, 28 to 32 round the middle of the body, dorsals 

 usually obtusely keeled. Fore limb a little longer than the head, 

 its length contained twice and one third to twice and a half in the 

 distance between axilla and groin. Tail about as long as the body, 

 slightly compressed ; upper caudal scales obtusely keeled. Yellowish 

 brown above, with nine or ten dark brown bands across the body ; 

 sides and limbs dark brown, yellow-spotted ; belly variegated brown 

 and yellow, the brown usually predominating. 



inillim. millim. 



Total length 5:30 Fore limb GG 



Head GO Hind limb G3 



Widtli of head 48 Tail 240 



Body 230 



New Guinea, Moluccas, Java*. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer [CI. 



(Types of Cyclodus carinalus.) 



H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



2. Tiliqua scincoides. 



Cyclodus gigas, Gray, Cat. p. 103. 

 Larerta scincoides, White, Journ. Voy. N. S. Wales, p. 242, pi. — ; 



Shaio, Nat. Miscell. v. pi. clxxix. 

 Scincus crotaphomelas, Lacep. Ann. Mus. iv. 1804, pp. 192, 209. 



tuberculatus, Merr. Tent. p. 73. 



Tiliqua tuberculata, Gray, Ann. Phil. (2) x. 1825, p. 201, and in 



Kiny's Vuy. Austr. ii. p. 429. 



scincoides, Fitziny. N. Clasa. Ropt. p. 62. 



wliitii, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. G7. 



crotapliomelas, Gray, I. c. p. G8. 



Cyclodus boddaertii, part., Dam. 4" Bibr. v. p. 752. 



gigas, Girard, U. S. Exp! or. Exped., Herp. p. 233 ; Sfratich, Bull. 



Ac. St. Petersh. x. 186G, p. 454 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict. dec. viii. 



pi. Ixxi. 

 boddaertii, Peters ^- Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, p. 36G. 



Frontonasal in contact with the rostral ; pra^frontals forming a 

 median suture ; four supraoculars, second largest ; six or seven 

 supraciliarics ; interparietal narrower than the parietals ; scales on 

 the occiput not or but slightly broader than long ; anterior temporals 

 much larger than the others, about as long as the interparietal ; 

 ear-opening about as large as the eye-opening, with two or three 



* I have examined a specimen from Bantam in the Berlin Museum (10190, 

 Stortenbecker). 



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