280 



SCINCTD.i:. 



one or two obtuse lobules. 2G or 28 scales round the middle of the 

 body; dorsals largest and sometimes feebly striated. Prieanals not 

 or scarcely enlarged. The adpressed limbs usually fail to meet. 

 Digits cylindrical; subdigital lamellae smooth, 19 to 23 under the 

 fourth toe. Tail once and one tliird to once and three fourths the 

 length of head and bodj-. Bronzy olive above, with a black, light- 

 edged lateral band ; frequently, the light lateral streaks are again 

 edged with black and a vertebral black streak is present; lower 

 surfaces greyish or greenish white. 



luillim. 



Total length 173 



Head 12 



Width of head 8 



Body 51 



Southern Australia, Tasmania. 



a-e. Ad. & hgr. 

 /. Ad. 

 g-k. Ad. 

 l-m. Ad. 

 n-r. Ad. & hgr. 

 s-u. Ad. 

 V. Ad. 

 w. Ad. 



.T-s. Ad. 



N. S. Wales. 

 Sydney. 

 Tasmania. 

 Tasmania. 

 Tasmania. 

 W. Australia. 

 W. Australia. 

 Albany, S.W. Aus- 

 tralia. 

 Swan Iiiver. 



millim. 



Fore limb 15 



Hind limb 23 



Tail 110 



G. Ivrefft, Esq. 



R. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Milligan [P.]. 

 Sir A. Smith [P.]. 

 J.Gould,Esq.[C.].j^T^^p^^_^ 



H. Ling Eoth, Esq. [P.]. 



74. Lygosoma metallicum. (Plate XXII. fig. 1.) 



Mocoa ocellata, part., Gray, Cat. p. 82. 

 Mocoa metaUica, O'' Shavghn. Ann. ^- 31ag. N. H. 

 p. 299. 



(4) 



xiu. 



1874, 



Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 

 and the fore limb is contained once and two fifths to once and two 

 thirds in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 

 obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Xostril 

 pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, 

 forming a suture with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield 

 shorter than frontoparietal and interparietal together, in contact 

 with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second 

 largest ; six or seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single (in one 

 specimen divided) ; interparietal distinct ; parietals forming a suture 

 behind the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 

 border the parietals ; fifth ujjper labial largest and entering the 

 orbit. Ear-opening roundish, as large as or a little larger than the 

 transparent palpebral disk, without distinct lobules. 24 to 28 

 scales round the middle of the body : dorsals largest and usually 

 more or less distinctly striated or ])luricarinate. Proeaiials not or 

 scarcely enlarged, ^.'he adpressed limbs meet or slightly overlap. 

 Digits cylindrical ; subdigital lameUae smooth, 18 to 22 under the 



