8. LYeosoma, 227 
supraciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals distinct, shorter than the 
interparietal ; parietals forming a median suture; three pairs of 
nuchals ; sixth upper labial entering the orbit. Ear-opening oval, 
nearly as large as the eye-opening, the anterior border with a fringe 
of four or five lobules. 22 smooth scales round the body; dorsals, 
especially the two vertebral series, largest, laterals smallest. Two 
large preanals. The hind limb reaches the elbow. Toes long 
and slender, compressed ; subdigital lamelle sharply unicarinate, 
28 under the fourth toe. Brown above, with six white longitudinal 
lines ; upper lip and side of body white; two brown lines from the 
ear to the fore limb, and another from axilla to groin; lower 
surfaces white. a 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 162 Fore limb ........ 19 
Head........ ae aS Hind limb........ 31 
Width ofhead .... 8 Tail (reproduced) .. 100 
Body eagacweveexs 49 
Adelaide, 
a, Ad. Adelaide. Rev. T. E, Lea [P.]. 
4, Lygosoma teniolatum. 
Hinulia teeniolata, Gray, Cat. p. 78. é 
Lacerta teniolata, White, Journ. N.S. Wales, p. 245, pl. —. fig. 1. 
Scincus octolineatus, Daud. Rept. iv. p. 285. 
—— teniolatus, Merr. Tent. p. 72. 
—— undecimstriatus, Kuhl, Beitr. 2. Zool. u. Vergl, Anat. p. 129, 
—— multilineatus, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 45, pl. iti, 
bi. 
fifeua teniolata, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 68. 
Lygosoma teniolata, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 733; Hallow. Proc. Ac. 
Philad. 1860, p. 490. i 
Hinulia teeniolata, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 258, 
Euprepes teeniolata, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 49. 
Habit lacertiform, slender; the distance between the end of 
the snout and the fore limb is contained once and a half to once 
and four fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 
moderate, obtuse; loreal region nearly vertical. Lower eyelid 
scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal ; no post- 
nasal; rostral sometimes in contact with the frontonasal ; latter 
broader than long, forming a suture with the frontal, separating 
the prefrontals; frontal as long as or a little longer than 
frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the three 
anterior supraoculars; four supraoculars ; seven to nine supra- 
ciliaries, first largest ; frontoparietals distinct, as long as or shorter 
than the interparietal; parietals forming a suture behind the 
interparietal; three to five pairs of nuchals; fifth and sixth upper 
labials largest and below the eye. ar-opening oval, a little 
smaller than the eye-opening, with a fringe formed by three to five 
lobules anteriorly. 24 or 26 smooth scales round the a dorsals, 
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