8. LTOOSOMA. 



231 



Digits slightly compressed ; subdigital lamclloo smooth, divided, 27 

 to 32 under the fourth toe. Tail about twice as long as head and 

 body. Olive-brown above, with small scattered black spots ; sides 

 black, with small whitish spots ; a yellow dorso-lateral line ; lower 

 surfaces whitish ; throat, and sometimes also belly, with longitudinal 

 series of black dots. 



milliin 



Total length 285 



24 



.. 15 

 .. 71 



Head 



Width of head 



Body 



Australia. 



a. Ad. 



b. Ad. 



c-d. Ad. k hgr. 

 e. Y-. 



Australia. 

 Kangaroo Id. 

 Queensland. 

 Rockhampton. 



millim. 



Fore limb 30 



Hind limb 46 



Tail 190 



Lord Derby [P.]. 

 Zoological Societv. 

 G. Krefft, Esq. 

 Godeftroy Museum. 



(Types of Hi- 

 nulia (jastro- 

 sticta.) 



9. Lygosoma tenue. 



Hinidia elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 

 tenuis, part., Gray, I. c. 



7G. 



Tiliqua tenuis, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Byyi. p. 71, and Ann. N. IT. ii. 



1«38, p. 291. 

 Lygosoma erucata, Dion. Si- Bibr. v. p. 726. 

 Hinulia elegans, Gray, Zool. Ereb. ^- Terr., Rept. p. 6, pi. x. fig. 1. 



tenuis, Gray, I. c. pi. xi. fig. 3 ; Giinth. op. cit. p. 11. 



Euprepes tenuis, Steindaclm. Novara, Rept. p. 49. 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 

 the fore limb is contained once and two fifths to once and a half in 

 the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower 

 eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal ; fronto- 

 nasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture with the 

 rostral and in contact with the truncate anterior angle of the frontal ; 

 latter shield as long as or a little shorter than frontoparietals and 

 interparietal together, in contact with the two anterior supraocidars ; 

 four supraoculars ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals 

 and interparietal distinct, subequal or latter longest ; parietals 

 forming a suture behind the interparietal ; three enlarged shields 

 on each side bordering the parietals ; fifth and sixth upper labials 

 below the eye. Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little smaller 

 than the eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. 28 to 32 smooth scales 

 round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A 

 pair of large prseanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist or not 

 quite so far. Digits compressed; subdigital lamellae smooth or 

 obtusely keeled, 20 to 25 under the fourth toe. Tail once and one 

 fourth to once and a half as long as head and body. Pale greyish 

 or brownish above, with irregular black markings sometimes forming 

 a network ; a series of large black spots, more or less confluent 



