new Species of Scincidai. 299 



stripe and numerous small yellowish ocelli ; sides deep brown, 

 with a brig-ht yellowish wavy streak above and below. 



The British Museum has received this species from Tas- 

 mania. Collected by 11. Gunn, Esq. 



Mocoa mustelina, n. sp. 



Elongate and slender in form ; head small ; limbs short and 

 weak. Superficial resemblance to Hinulia ornata in coloration ; 

 but, besides being distinctly a Mocoa, it has much larger and 

 fewer scales : there are 22-24 longitudinal rows as counted 

 round the body, and 52 in a longitudinal ventral series ; while in 

 Hinulia ornata these numbers are respectively 30 and 62. 

 Colour : bright yellowish brown above, with small mottlings 

 and wavy lines and variegations along the sides, extending in 

 regular sti'eaks on the tail ; lower surface pure white ; chin 

 dotted with brown ; a pure white oblong spot immediately 

 behind the eye. 



The British Museum possesses three specimens from New 

 South Wales. 



Mocoa microlepidota, n. sp. 



Body somewhat depressed. Scales small, those on the back 

 distinctly three-ridged. Lower eyelid transparent. Nasals 

 and fronto-nasals not contiguous ; internasal broad, saddle- 

 shaped ; fronto-parietal single ; no supranasals ; 38 longi- 

 tudinal series of scales as counted round the body, 83 in a 

 longitudinal ventral series. Dorsal surftice closely speckled 

 with black and olive, a marginal olive stripe along upper edge 

 of sides ; sides with a deep band of dark brown, speckled and 

 breaking into the asneous bluish green of the lower surface, 

 which is also very minutely speckled with brown on the chin. 

 Tail with small uniform scales ; when reproduced, a single very 

 broad series inferiorly. 



In the collection of the British Museum, from Van Diemen's 

 Land. From the Sydney Museum. 



Mocoa metallica, n. sp. 



Lower eyelid transparent ; supranasals none. Scales di- 

 stinctly four- or five-keeled, the projections being well defined 

 but not sharp. Body stout, tetragonal ; limbs rather short ; 

 ear-opening large. Nasals and fronto-nasals not contiguous ; 

 frontal short, triangular, of the same size as or smaller than the 

 single fronto-parietal, which it joins with its truncated point. 

 Supralabials six, the four anterior subcMjual, that under the 

 eye more prolonged. Scales in 28 longitudinal series, the 



