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SCINCID^. 



a-d. Ad, 

 e-f. Ad. 

 ff-h. Ad. 

 I Ad. 

 k. Ad. 

 ^. Yg. 

 m. Ad. 

 n. Ad. 

 o,;J;?. Ad 



&bgi-. 



&hgi-. 



W. Australia. 



\V. Australia. 



Houtman's Abrolhos. 



N. Australia. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Mr. Buchanan [C.l. 

 .T. Gould, Esq. [C.J. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [C.J. 

 G. Krefft, Esq. 

 Ilaslar Collection. 

 Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 

 P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 

 G. Ki-eflt, Esq. 



Var. inornatum. 



Hiuulia inornata, Gray, Cat. p. 78. 

 Ilinulia inornata, Gray, Zool. Ereb. 6r Terr., Bept. pi. x. fig. 3. 



Yellowish olive above, with a whitish, dark-edged dorso-lateral 

 streak beginning from the supraciliary border ; a broader whitish 

 streak from ear to hind limb ; sometimes a very line blackish 

 vertebral line. 



(I. Ad. 

 h. Ad. 

 c. Ad. 



Swan River. 

 Cape York. 

 Australia. 



(Type.) 



Sir J. Richardson [P.]. 



2. Lygosoma dorsale. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 



Closely allied to L. lesneurii. Only three supraoculars, first very 

 large ; frontal much longer than frontoparietals and interparietal 

 together. Two or three auricular lobules. Adpressed limbs sHghtly 

 overlapping. 30 scales round the body. Pale brown above ; a 

 black vertebral streak ; a yellowish, black-edged lateral streak ; a 

 lateral series of black spots and an iU-defined light, dark-edged 

 streak from axilla to groin ; lower surfaces white. 



millim. 

 From snout to vent. 94 



Head 20 



Width of head 11 



New Guinea. 

 (i-b. Ad. 



Fly River. 



miUim. 



Fore limb 22 



Hind limb 39 



Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 



3. Lygosoina lese. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) 



Habit lacertiform, slender ; the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half in the distance 

 between axilla and groin. Snout moderate, obtuse ; loreal region 

 nearly vertical. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single 

 nasal ; no supranasal : no postnasal ; nasals in contact mesiaUy ; 

 frontonasal broader than long; praefrontals forming a median suture ; 

 frontal as long as frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact 

 with the three anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven 



