8. LTGOSOMA. 227 



supraciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals distinct, shorter than the 

 interparietal ; parietals forming a median suture ; three pairs of 

 nuchals ; sixth upper labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, 

 nearly as large as the eye-opening, the anterior border with a fringe 

 of four or five lobules. 22 smooth scales round the body ; dorsals, 

 especially the two vertebral series, largest, laterals smallest. Two 

 large pra)anals. The hind limb reaches the elbow. Toes long 

 and slender, compressed ; subdigital lamella) sharply uiiicarinate, 

 28 under the fourth toe. lirown above, with six white longitudinal 

 lines ; upper lip and side of body white ; two brown lines from the 

 ear to the fore limb, and another from axilla to groin ; lower 

 surfaces white. 



luilliiu. milllm. 



Total length 1(52 Fore limb 19 



Head 13 Hind limb 31 



Width of head 8 Tail (reproduced) . . 100 



Body 49 



Adelaide. 

 a. Ad. Adelaide. Rev. T. E. Lea [P.]. 



4. Lygosoma tseniolatum. 



Hinulia t^niolata, Gray, Cat. p. 78. 

 Lacerta tteniolata, JV1iite,Journ. N. S. Wales, p. 245, pi. — . fig. 1. 

 Scincus octolineatiis, Daucl. Rept. iv. p. 285. 



tfeniolatus, Men: Tent. p. 72. 



undecimstnatus, KiM, Beitr. z. Zool. u. Vergl. Anat. p. 129. 



multihneatus, Lesson, Voij. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 45, pi. iii. 



fig. 2. 

 Tiliqua tajniolata, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn, p. 68. 

 Lygosoma tteniolata, t)um. i.y Bibr. v. p. 733 ; Ilalloio. Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 1860, p. 490. 

 Hinulia tasoiolata, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Ilerp. p. 258. 

 Euprepes taeuiolata, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 49. 



Habit lacertiform, slender ; the distance between the end of 

 the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half to once 

 and four fifths 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 post- 

 nasal ; rostral sometimes in contact with the frontonasal ; latter 

 broader than long, forming a suture with the frontal, separating 

 the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as or a little longer than 

 frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the three 

 anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; seven to nine supra- 

 ciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals distinct, as locg as or shorter 

 than the interparietal; parietals forming a suture behind the 

 interparietal ; three to five pairs of nuchals ; fifth and sixth upper 

 labials largest and below the eye. Ear-opening oval, a little 

 smaller than the eye-opening, with a fringe formed by three to five 

 lobules anteriorly. 24 or 26 smooth scales round the body ; dorsals, 



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