1. EGERNIA. 139 
adpressed limbs overlap. Digits moderate. Tail cylindrical, a little 
longer than head and body; upper caudal scales keeled like the 
dorsals. Blackish olive with yellowish spots, or olive with light 
and black spots above; lower surfaces yellowish, uniform or spotted 
with black. 
millim millim. 
Total length ...... 475 Fore limb ........ 55 
Head vcenigvcaws 42 Hind limb........ 76 
Width of head .... 32 U1 ere er ea aerrerer ee 265 
Body’. csaseceks as 168 
‘Western and Southern Australia. 
a. Ad. ; Australia. Capt. P. P. King [P.]. e. 
a, Ad., stuffed. Australia. (Type of Peopeicpona fi 
dum. 
e. Ad. Australia. : 
d, e. Yg. Australia. Dr. Fleming [P.]. 
f-A. Her. Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
a, k. Ad., stuffed. W. Australia, 
i. Hgv., stuffed. Dirk Hartog Island. H.M.S. ‘ Herald.’ 
m,n. Ad. & hgr., Houtman’s Abrolhos. Mr. Gilbert [C.]. 
stuffed. 
o, Ad. Houtman’s Abrolhos. Mr. Gilbert [C.]. 
p. Her. Swan River. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 
. Ad, Swan River. 
r-v. Her.& yg. 8. Australia. Dr. Fletcher [P.]. 
7. Egernia cunninghami. 
Egernia cunninghami, Gray, Cat. p. 105. 
Tiliqua cunninghami, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 40. 
Egernia cunninghami, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii, 1838, p. 288, and in 
Stokes, Discov. in Austral. i. p. 499, pl. ti. 
Tropidolepisma cunninghami, A. Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p.177. 
Egernia krefftii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 30. 
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, as large as or a 
little larger than the interparietal; four or five supraoculars, second 
largest ; seven or eight supraciliaries ; sixth and seventh, or seventh 
and eighth upper labials entering the orbit; two to four pairs of 
nuchals. Ear-opening as large as, or a little larger than, the eye- 
opening, with four or five pointed lobules anteriorly. Nuchal-scales 
pluricarinate, dorsals and laterals sharply unicarinate, ending in a 
point, the keel and the point becoming stronger towards the tail; 
dorsal scales largest, laterals smallest; 36 to 42 scales round the 
middle of the body. The adpressed limbs largely overlap. Digits 
moderate. Tail cylindrical, a little longer than head and body; 
upper caudal scales strongly unicarinate, ending in a spine. Dark 
olive above, with black marblings or irregular cross bands, with or 
without light dots; head-shields usually edged with black; lower 
