138 SCINCIDA, 
5, Egernia striolata. 
Tropidolepisma striolatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, p. 642. 
Head moderate. A curved groove behind the nostril; fronto- 
nasal in contact with the rostral; prefrontals forming a median 
suture; frontal not twice as long as broad, as large as or smaller 
than the interpariectal; four supraoculars, second largest; seven 
supraciliaries; fifth or sixth upper labial entering the orbit; two 
or three pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening as large as the eye-opening, 
with three pointed lobules anteriorly. 28 to 32 scales round the 
middle of the body; dorsals largest, quadri- or quinquecarinate, 
laterals smallest, tricarinate. The adpressed limbs overlap. Digits 
moderate. Tail cylindrical, a little longer than head and body; a 
series of large, transversely dilated scales on the upper as well as on 
the lower surface of the tail, the former pluricarinate. Brown 
above, with lighter dots.and a lighter dorso-lateral band; longitu- 
dinal, more or less confluent blackish streaks on the vertebral 
region; a blackish lateral band; upper head-shields black-edged ; 
labials yellowish, black-edged ; lower surfaces yellowish or greyish, 
throat spotted or reticulated with blackish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 190 Fore limb ........ 27 
Head ois cciaat ones 21 Hind limb........ 36 
Width ofhead .... 15 ot rer rere 100 
Body ... 6.0 feces 69 
Queensland. 
a, Yg. Gayndah. Museum Godeffroy. 
6. Yg. Northern Queensland. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
e Ad. Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
6. Egernia kingii. 
Tropidolepisma kingii, Gray, Cat. p. 106. 
—— nitida, Gray, l.c. 
Tiliqua kingii, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1888, p. 290. 
—— napoleonis, Gray, J. c. 
Tropidolopisma dumerilii, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 745, pl. 1. 
Tropidolepisma nitida, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr,, Rept. pl. xii. 
— kingii, Gray, Jc. pl. xiii. 
Head moderate. A curved groove behind the nostril; fronto- 
nasal in contact with the rostral; prefrontals usually forming a 
median suture; frontal not twice as long as broad, not or but 
slightly longer than the interparietal; four or five supraocculars, 
second largest; seven or eight supraciliaries ; sixth or seventh labial 
entering the orbit; two to four pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening about 
as large as the eye-opening, with three or four pointed lobules 
anteriorly. 36 to 40 scales round the middle of the body, laterals 
smallest, dorsals more or less strongly bi-' or tricarinate. The 
