1. EGERNIA. 135 
1. Egernia luctuosa. 
Cyclodus (Omolepida) luctuosus, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac, 1866, p. 90 
Lissolepis luctuosa, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1872, p. 776, 
Head moderate. No curved groove behind the nostril, but a short 
suture below the latter ; nasals usually in contact behind the rostral ; 
preefrontals forming a median suture ; frontal nearly twice as long as 
broad, a little longer than the interparietal ; four or five supraoculars, 
second largest ; seven to nine supraciliaries ; fifth and sixth, or sixth 
and seventh upper labials below the eye, from which they are sepa- 
rated by a series of small scales; three large temporals; three or 
four pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening as large as or a little smaller 
than the eye-opening, with two small ‘pointed lobules anteriorly. 
Scales subequal, smooth, dorsals feebly striated, 24 round the middle 
of the body. The adpressed limbs meet or slightly overlap. Digits 
moderately elongate. Tail cylindrical, once and a half to once and 
three fourths the length of head and body ; caudal scales smooth. 
Yellowish olive above, largely spotted with black, or black varie- 
gated with yellow; tail with longitudinal black bands ; lower sur- 
faces yellowish, uniform or spotted with black. 
millim, millim. 
Total length ...... 342 Fore limb ........ 32 
Head | shoe sa vauacca 28 Hind limb ........ 45 
Width of head. 19 DAU 3 2: ores eceetea sot ioe 220 
Body ep eee wens 94 
Australia. 
a, Ad. W. Australia, Hr. Damel [C.]. 
b-e, Ad. 8. Australia. Dr. Fletcher [P.]. 
d, Ad. Sydney. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
e. Ad. Australia, Sir J, Richardson [P.]. 
2. Egernia whitii. 
Hinulia whitei, Gray, Cat. p. 79. : 
Scineus whitii, Lacép. Ann. Mus. iv. p. 192; Quoy § Gaim, Voy. 
Uranie, Zool. pl. xiii. figs. 2&3, 
Tiliqua leucopsis, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1838, p. 291. 
Lygosoma molinigera, Dum. § Bitr, v. p. 736. 
—— whitei, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 230. 
_ Euprepes whitei, Stendachn. Novara, Rept. p. 49. 
Head moderate. Curved groove behind the nostril absent o1 
feebly marked ; a vertical suture below the nostril; frontonasal in 
contact with the rostral and frequently also with the frontal 3. pree- 
frontals sometimes forming a median suture; frontal not twice as 
long as broad, as long as or a little longer than the frontoparietal P 
four or five supraoculars, second largest ; eight to ten supraciliaries ; 
fifth and sixth, or sixth and seventh upper labials below the eye; 
* Type examined, 
