272 SCINCID-S. 



lamellas smooth, 28 or 29 under the fourth toe. Tail about once 

 and a lialf the length of head and body. Black above, spotted all 

 over with pale olive, or olive dotted with black; lower surfaces 

 greenish or pale olive. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail re- Body 84 



produced) 215 Fore limb 30 



Head 20 Hind limb 42 



"Width of head .... 1-i 



New Zealand. 



c. Ad. N. Zealand, South Island. (Type.) 



b. Yg. N. Zealand. Welliugton Museum. (As 



typical of Mucoa laxa.) 



64. Lygosoma moco. 



Hinulia oruata, part., Gray, Cat. p. 77. 



Mocoa zelandica, Gray, I. c. p. 82. 



owenii, Gray, I. c. p. 272. 



Lygosoma moco, Dum. ^' Hibr. v. p. 718. 



Tiliqua zelandica, Gray, in iJieffenh. N. Zeal. ii. p. 202. 



Mocoa zelandica, Gray, Zool. Ereh. i^- Terr., Hept. p. 8, pi. vii. fig. 4 ; 



Hutton, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. iv. 1872, p. 168. 

 Hinulia crnata, Gray, 1. c. pi. xi. fig. 1. 

 Oligosoma zelandicum, Girard, U.S. JExplor. Exped., Herp. p. 246, 



pi. xxvii. figs. 9-16. 

 Euprepes moco, Steind. Xovara, Hept. p. 47. 

 Hinulia variegata, Buller, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. iii. 1871, p. 5, pi. ii. 



fig. 3. 

 Mocoa striata, Buller, /. c. p. 6, fig. 2. 

 zealandica, part., G until. Zoul. Ereh, 8)- Terr., Hept. p. 13. 



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

 the fore limb is contained once and a half to once and three fourths 

 in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 

 short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans- <y^~*^ 

 parent disk. Nostril pierced in the centre of the 

 nasal ; no supranasal ; rostral nearly twice as broad 

 as deep ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a 

 suture with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter 

 shield a little shorter than frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the two anterior I^ront and upper 



supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; six '^\^^^ of snout, to 

 ^ -T • i> i. • J. 1 V X- \l show the form of 



or seven supraciliaries ; trontoparietals distinct, s^i the rostral shield 



little longer than the interparietal ; parietals in 



contact behind the interparietal, bordered by a pair of nuchals 



and a pair of temporals ; two to five pairs of nuchals ; usually, 



fifth upper labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening 



roundish or oval, much larger than the transparent palpebral disk ; 



usually with one or two projecting granules or small lobules. 



28 to 32 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals 



largest. Prajanal scales not or scarcely enlarged. The adprcssed 



limbs meet or fail to meet. Digits moderately long, subcylindrical; 



subdigital lamella) smooth, 20 to 28 under the fourth toe. Tail once 



