338 sciNCiD^. 



Body much elongate ; fore limb absent ; hind limb minute, mono- 

 dactylc. Snout cuneiform, with angularly projecting labial edge. 

 Eye very small. Lower eyelid ■with a transparent disk. Nostril 

 pierced in a large nasal, which forms a suture with its fellow. 

 Frontonasal broad ; no praefrontals ; a single (loreal) shield on each 

 side of the head between the nostril and the eye ; frontal very 

 large : two small supraoculars : frontoparietals and interparietal 

 fused into a single large shield, behind which the band-like parietals 

 form a suture ; two or three pairs of nuchals ; third upper labial 

 entering the orbit. Ear-opening scarcely distinguishable. 10 

 smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest. A pair 

 of enlarged prseanals. Hind limb styliform, as long as three 

 adjacent scales. Tail as thick as, and shorter than, the body. 

 Brownish white, with two series of dark brown dots along the 

 middle of the back and a broad dark brown lateral band. 



From snout to vent 66 millim., tail 59. 



Western Australia. 



Ad. 



152. Lygosoma miielleri *. 



Elania mulleri, Grai/, Cat. p. 80. 

 Scincus miiUeri, S'chle;/. Ahhild. p. 13, pi. iii. 

 Lygosoma miilleri, Dum. c^ JBtb)-. v. p. 740. 

 (Elania) mulleri, var. jobiana, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, 



p. 132. 

 ( ) mulleri, Peters ^- Doria, Ann. Mvs. Genova, xiii. 1878, 



p. 346. 

 Elania miilleri, Sauvage, Bidl. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1879, p. 56. 



Body elongate, limbs moderate ; the distance between the end of 

 the snout and the fore limb is contained once and three fourths or 

 twice in the distance between asiUa and groin. Head very small, 

 much depressed : snout long, obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid 

 scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal : no supranasal ; rostral 

 narrowed and produced posteriorly between the nasals, forming a 

 narrow suture with the frontonasal, which is as long as broad or a 

 little broader than long, and in contact with the frontal ; latter 

 nearly as large as frontoparietals and inteiparictal together, nearly 

 as broad as long, broader than the supraocular region, in contact 

 with the first supraciliary and the two anterior supraoculars; Jour 

 supraoculars ; seven or eight supraciliaries : frontoparietals and 

 interparietal distinct, subequal ; parietals forming a suture behind 



* Described from specimcus in the Berlin Museum. 



