4. rruTavA, 145 
supraciliaries; interparietal as broad as or narrower than the 
parietals; scales on the occiput broader than long; anterior tem- 
porals much larger than the others, at least as long as the inter- 
parietal; ear-opening about as large as the eye-opening, with two 
or three large, obtuse projecting lobules on the anterior border. 
Scales subequal, 28 to 32 round the middle of the body, dorsals 
usually obtusely keeled. Fore limb a little longer than the head, 
its length contained twice and one third to twice and a half in the 
distance between axilla and groin. Tail about as long as the body, 
slightly compressed ; upper caudal scales obtusely keeled. Yellowish 
brown above, with nine or ten dark brown bands across the body ; 
sides and limbs dark brown, yellow-spotted ; belly variegated brown 
and yellow, the brown usually predominating. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 530 Fore limb ........ 66 
Head oa eae cena 60 Hind limb........ 63 
Width of head .... 48 Wall eecesw ee tee aks 240 
Body cco cyeaia x 230 
New Guinea, Moluccas, Java*. 
a, Ad. Ternate. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
6. Ad. Mysol. 
e-d, Ad. N. Ceram. (Types of Cyclodus carinatus.) 
e. Ad. Amboyna. 
f. Ad Ke Dolau, Kei Islands. | H.M.S. ‘ Challenger,’ 
2. Tiliqua scincoides. 
Cyclodus gigas, Gray, Cat. p. 103. 
Lacerta scincoides, White, Journ. Voy. N. S. Wales, p. 242, pl. —; 
Shaw, Nat, Miscell. v. pl. clxxix. : 
Scincus crotaphomelas, Lacép. Ann. Mus. iv. 1804, Pp. 192, 209. 
—— tuberculatus, Merr. Tent. p. 73. : 
Tiliqua tuberculata, Gray, Ann. Phil. (2) x. 1825, p. 201, and in 
King’s Voy. Austr. ii. p. 429. 
—— scincoides, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 52. 
—— whitii, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 67. 
—— crotaphomelas, Gray, J, ¢. p. 68. _. 
Cyclodus estab gr ard Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 752. 
—— gigas, Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 233 ; Strauch, Bull. 
Ac. St. Pétersb. x. 1866, p. 454; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict. dec. viii. 
1. Ixxi. " 
boddaertii, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, p. 366. 
Frontonasal in contact with the rostral; prefrontals forming a 
median suture; four supraoculars, second largest ; six or seven 
supraciliaries ; interparietal narrower than the parietals ; scales on 
the occiput not or but slightly broader than long ; anterior temporals 
much larger than the others, about as long as the interparietal ; 
ear-opening about as large as the eye-opening, with two or three 
* T have examined a specimen from Bantam in the Berlin Museum (10490, 
Stortenbecker). 
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