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5. HEMISPHERIODON.—6. MACROSCINCUS. 149 
one or two pairs of nuchals; sixth upper labial entering the orbit, 
seventh largest. Ear-opening smaller than the eye-opening, with 
a very indistinct lobule on its anterior border. Scales smooth, 
laterals smallest, 28 round the middle of the body. Adpressed 
limbs meeting in the young, not in the adult. Tail cylindrical, a 
little longer than the body in the adult, a little shorter in the young. 
Yellowish or pale brown above, with eight dark brown cross bands 
on the body, the largest of which is on the nape; these bands 
broader than the interspaces between them; head-shields bordered 
with brown; lower surfaces yellowish, mottled with brown; a 
L-shaped brown mark on the chin, the median branch extending 
to the mental, the horizontal ones extending to below the eyes ; 
another, [-shaped, brown patch on the throat. 
millim. nillim 
Total length ...... 369 Fore limb.......... 43 
ead ye stcieaye desnaye 42 Hind limb ........ 49 
Width of head .... 29 Pall .cnvid vee es 195 
Body ............ 132 
Queensland. 
a, b. Ad., stuffed. Australia. (Types.) 
ec, d. Ad. Rockhampton. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
e-g. Yg. Rockhampton. 
6. MACROSCINCUS. 
Euprepes, part., Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 663; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 110. 
Macroscincus, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1873, p. 302. 
Charactodon, Zroschel, Sitzb. Naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl. xxxi. 1874, 
p- 225. 
Palatine bones in contact mesially ; pterygoids widely separated, 
toothless. Lateral teeth with compressed denticulated crowns, 
similar to those of the genus Iguana. Eyelids well developed, 
lower with an undivided transparent disk. Ear-opening distinct, 
tympanum deeply sunk. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; supra- 
nasals present ; a complete series of shields between the orbit and 
the upper labials; prefrontals present; frontoparietals and inter- 
parietal distinct. Limbs well developed, pentadactyle. Digits com- 
pressed, with undivided lamelle inferiorly. 
Cape Verde Islands. 
1. Macroscincus coctzi. 
Euprepis coctei, Gray, Cat. p. 110. 
Euprepes coctei, bom, & Bibr. p. 666. 
Macroscincus coctei, Bocaye, 1. c. p. 295. 
Habit stout, body depressed. Snout moderate, obtuse. Nostril 
pierced in the posterior part of the nasal, which is followed by a 
postnasal ; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; preefrontals 
