3. Mocoa Zelandica,"^ Gray. 



Pale brown, bronzed, with two narrow black edged bright streaks on each 

 side, the lower one continued down the front of the legs ; sides blackish ; the 

 fronto-nasal nearly contiguous, the fronto-parietal separate, similar to the 

 parietal, nasal nearly contiguous ; ears moderate, nearly circular, simple edged ; 

 pre-anal scales nearly equal ; palpebral disk moderate. 



Mokomoko of the natives. 



4. Mocoa Smithii, Gray. 



Pale brown, with three indistinct series of black spots and a pale streak on 

 each side ; sides black, varied ; beneath whitish ; limbs black spotted ; nasal 

 and fronto-nasal nearly contiguous, fronto-parietal and parietal nearly equal ; 

 ears open, simple-edged ; pre-anal plates nearly equal ; disk of the lower eyelid 

 very large. 



5. Mocoa grandls, Gray. 



Black, closely yellow spotted, forming interrupted streaks ; beneath whitish ; 

 soles of the feet black ; ears rather large, roundish, with some gTanular scales 

 in front ; fronto-parietals distinct ; disk of lower eyelid moderate, sub-central. 



6. Mocoa striata^ Buller. 



Dark brown, obscurely marked with black and with two rows of small 

 equidistant spots of white. From each side of the crown a broad stripe of 

 white passes down the back and tail, leaving on the latter only a narrow, inter- 

 mediate stripe of dark brown. These dorsal bands ai-e narrowly margined 

 above with black, and are succeeded below by an equally broad and distinct 

 stripe of dark brown, which, commencing behind each eye, passes down the 

 sides and widens on the tail. Beneath pale brown, spotted with darker, except 

 on the chin which is almost white ; fore feet brown, with an indistinct white 

 stripe down the front ; hind legs bi'own, obscurely spotted with white ; tail 

 slender and tapering ; ears deep and round. 



Head -Sin. ; body 2-2 ; tail 3-3. 



Genus Naultinus. Gray. 



Characters. — Toes fi-ee, base rather dilated, thick, rather compressed, 

 end thinner, rather compressed, arched, clawed. Thumb similar, but its base 

 shorter, clawed. Tail cylindrical, tajaering, covered with granular scales. 

 Body with a slight fold along each side beneath. Males ? with two or three 

 spines on each side of the base of the tail, and three or more transverse series 

 of preanal pores, forming one and sometimes two patches. — Brit. Mus. (7ai(.,p,169, 



* Hinulia ornata and Mocoa Zelandica are tlie two species commonly described as 

 Tiliqua ornata and T. Zelandica. Specimens of both are deposited in the Colonial 

 Museum. 



