140 SCINCIDE. 
surfaces whitish or pale olive; throat bluish grey, or spotted and 
marbled with black; belly immaculate, or scantily spotted with 
black. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 330 Fore limb........ 46 
68d. vcaraccjan ces 35 Hind limb........ 62 
Width of head .... 25 Maile isa ses a -180 
BOG wicca tethers 4 115 
| Australia. 
a, Ad., stuffed. W. Australia, lat.29°, = A. mee Esq. [P.]. 
(Type. 
b, Yg. Long Bay, near Sydney. J. Brazier, Esq. [P.}. 
c. Yg. Sydney. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
d, Ad. Queensland. Prof, A. M. Thomson [P.]. 
e, f. Ad. & yg. Australia. G. Kretft, Esq. [P.]. 
gh. Ad.& yg. Australia. 
a. Ad., stuffed, Australia. 
8. Egernia stokesii. (Prare V. fig. 2.) 
Silubosaurus stokesii, Gray, Cat. p. 104. 
Silubosaurus stokesii, A. Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 180; Gray, in 
Stokes, Discov. in Austral. i. p. 499, pl. i. 
? Silubosaurus zellingi, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl, i. 1884, 
p. 63. 
Head rather small. A curved groove behind the nostril, often 
completely dividing the nasal; frontonasal in contact with the 
rostral ; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal not twice 
as long as broad, a little larger than the interparietal; four or five 
supraoculars, second largest; six or seven supraciliaries; fifth or 
sixth upper labial entering the orbit; one to four pairs of nuchals.. 
Ear-opening a little larger than the eye-opening, with two or three 
large triangular lobules. Anterior dorsal scales sharply bi- or tri- 
carinate, posterior uni- or bicarinate, spinose, the spines becoming 
stronger towards the tail; the scales of the two median dorsal 
series broader than the others; 32 or 34 scales round the middle 
of the body. The adpressed limbs fail to meet, or just meet, in the 
adult, slightly overlapin the young. Digitsshort. Tail much shorter 
than the body, much depressed, the scales, especially the laterals, 
ending in a strong spine obliquely directed upwards; these spines 
form eight longitudinal series. Brown above, with irregular pale olive 
and blackish spots; head-shields edged with blackish ; lower surfaces 
pale olive, or brown with pale olive spots. One of the specimens 
is uniform blackish brown. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 275 Fore limb........ 50 
Head ............ 31 Hind limb ...... 55 
Width of head .... 29 Wallis: se Senedd 63 
Body ............ 181 - 
Western Australia, 
