5. nEMISPH.T:RIODOX. — 0. MACROSCINCTTS. 149 



one or two pairs of nuchals : sixth upper labial entering the orbit, 

 seventh lari^cst. Ear-opening smaller than the eye-opening, with 

 a very indistinct lobule on its anterior border. Scales smooth, 

 laterals smallest, 28 round the middle of the body. Adpresscd 

 limbs meeting in the young, Jiot in the adult. Tail cylindrical, a 

 little longer than the body iu the adult, a little shorter in the young. 

 Yellowish or pale brown above, with? eight dark brown cross bands 

 on the body, the largest of which is on the nape ; these bands 

 broader than the interspaces between them ; head-shields bordered 

 with brown ; lower surfaces yellowish, mottled with brown ; a 

 ^-shaped brown mark on the chin, the median branch extending 

 to the mental, the horizontal ones extending to below the eyes ; 

 another, X-shaped, brown patch on the throat. 



inilliin. millim. 



Total length 369 Fore limb 43 



Head 42 Hind limb 49 



AVidth of head 29 Tail 195 



Body 132 



Queensland. 



a, b. Ad., stuffed. Australia. (T^qjes.) 



c, d. Ad. Rockhampton. Gr. Krefi't, Esq. [P.]. 



e-ff. Yg. Rockhampton. 



6. MACROSCINCUS. 



Euprepes, part., Bnm. Si- Bihr. v. p. 6G3 ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 110. 

 Macroscincu.s, Bocaye, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1873, p. 302. 

 Cbaractodon, Troschel, Sttzb. Naturh. Ver. Pretiss. Bheinl. xxxi. 1874, 

 p. •22o. 



Palatine bones in contact mesially ; pterygoids widely separated, 

 toothless. Lateral teeth with compressed denticulated crowns, 

 similar to those of the genus Iguana. Eyelids well developed, 

 lower with an undivided transparent disk. Ear-opening distinct, 

 tympanum deeply sunk. jS'ostril pierced in a single nasal ; supra- 

 nasals present ; a complete series of shields between the orbit and 

 the upper labials ; praefrontals present ; frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal distinct. Limbs well developed, peutadactyle. Digits com- 

 pressed, with undivided lamellae interiorly. 



Cape Yerde Islands. 



1. Macroscincus coctaei. 



Euprepis coctei, Gray, Cut. p. 110. 

 Euprepes coctei, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 666. 

 Macroscincus coctei, Bocaye, I. c. p. 295. 



Habit stout, body depressed. Snout moderate, obtuse. Nostril 

 pierced in the posterior part of the nasal, which is followed by a 

 postnasal; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; prsefrontals 



