136 SCINCIDZ, 
three large temporals; one or two pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening 
nearly as large as the eye-opening, with three or four obtuse lobules 
anteriorly. Scales smooth, laterals a little smaller than dorsals and 
ventrals, 32 to 40 round the middle of the body. The adpressed 
limbs overlap. Digits moderately elongate. Tail more or less dis- 
tinctly compressed, once and two fifths to once and two thirds the 
length of head and body; caudal scales smooth. Upper surfaces 
usually brown or olive-brown, with two dorsal black bands, each 
bearing a series of small yellowish-white or pale-brown spots ; sides 
with similar black-edged spots or ocelli; lower surfaces pale olive, 
throat sometimes with black markings. The elegant markings of 
the upper surfaces may be almost or quite absent. Edge of the 
eyelids and ear-lobules constantly white. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 295 Fore limb ........ 33 
Had: sce ceeacg ess 25 Hind limb........ 48 
Width of head 18 NET Reeser Rrra 185 
BOO sccaueiccecbavans cece 85 
Australia; Tasmania. 
a-d, Ad. & her. Queensland. 
e. Ad. ‘-Gayndah. Museum Godeftroy. 
Jf-g, h. Ad. & her. Sydney. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
2, k-m. Ad. & her. N.S. Wales. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.}]. 
n. Hey, - Kangaroo Island. Paris Museum. 
o. Her. Swan River. 
p-g. Ad. Houtman’s Abrolhos, J. Gould, Esq. [C.}. 
T, Beveral spec.: ad., Australia. Antarctic Expedition. 
gr. & yg. 
s-t. Yg. Australia. Lieut. A. Smith [P.]. 
tt. Several spec.: ad., Australia. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
gr., & yg. 
v. Ad., stuffed. Australia. W. Shuckard, Esq. [P.]. 
oy Bevoral spec.: ad., Tasmania. Dr. Robertson [Ph 
er., & yg. 
aa. Ad. & ye. Tasmania, Dr. Milligan [P.]. 
6-5. Ad. Tasmania. 
3. Egernia dorsalis. 
Tropidolepisma dorsale, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1878, p. 748. 
Head short. A curved groove behind the nostril; frontonasal in 
contact with the rostral; prefrontals forming a median suture; 
frontal narrow, twice as long as broad, not longer than the fronto- 
parietal; five supraoculars, second largest; six supraciliaries; a 
complete series of infraoculars, the median wedged in between the 
fifth and sixth upper labials. Ear-opening larger than the eye- 
opening, partly concealed under three very large triangular lobules. 
26 (to 28) scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals and laterals 
quinque- or quadricarinate, the scales of the two median nuchal and 
dorsal series much broader than the others; laterals and ventrals 
