282 



SCINCID.5;. 



darker and lighter spots : vertebral region sometimes darker ; a 

 dark brown lateral band, edged above and below by a light streak ; 

 greenish white interiorly, sometimes with blackish dots. 



Total length . , 



Head 



AVidth of head 

 Body 



South Australia. 



a. Ad. 

 h-e. Ad. 

 f,g,h-i. Ad. 

 h. Ad. 



iTiillim. 



!)? 



9 



6 



31 



millini. 



Fore limb 11 



Hind limb 15 



Tail 57 



Sydney. 

 Swan River. 

 S. Australia. 

 Australia. 



G. Kreff't, Esq. 

 Paris Museum. 



76. Lygosoma pretiosum. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 



Mocoa pretiosa, O' Shaughn. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 298. 

 microlepidota, O'Shaughn. I. c. p. 299. 



Habit lacertiform. The distance between the end of the snoiit 

 and the fore limb is contained jonce and two fifths in the distance 

 between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with 

 an undivided transparent disk. Nostril pierced in the nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 

 the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield a little shorter than 

 frontoparietal and interparietal together, in contact with the two 

 anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest : seven or 

 eight supraciliarics ; frontoparietal single ; a small interparietal ; 

 parietals formiug a suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of 

 nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals ; fifth upper 

 labial largest and entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, larger than 

 the transparent palpebral disk. 34 to 38 scales round the middle 

 of the body ; dorsals largest, striated or feebly pluricarinate. Prie- 

 anals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs meet or overlap. Digits 

 cylindrical ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 20 to 22 under the fourth 

 toe. Tail a little longer than head and bod5^ Olive above, with 

 small darker and lighter spots ; a blackish lateral band ; a blackish 

 vertebral streak may be present ; lower surfaces greenish ; lips and 

 throat black-dotted. 



Mocoa miavlepidota.) 



