228 SCINCIDZ, 
especially the two vertebral series, largest, laterals smallest. Two 
large preanals. The adpressed limbs slightly overlap, or the hind 
limb reaches the elbow. Toes long and slender, compressed ; sub- 
digital lamelle feebly unicarinate, 20 to 26 under the fourth toe. 
Tail about twice the length of head and body. Yellowish brown 
above, with three broad black bands and four white streaks along 
the back; sides without any spots, with alternating black and 
white longitudinal streaks; altogether, eight white streaks on the 
body, the two on each side broadest; limbs with longitudinal black 
lines ; lower surfaces white. 
millim, millim 
Total length ...... 230 Fore limb ........ 19 
Ad yes. Guat sarang 14 Hind limb........ 33 
Width of head.... 9 MALL: srteiis eaten 155 
BOO vice grea setae 61 
New South Wales. 
a, b-c. Ad. & her. Sydney. G. Krefft, Esq. 
d. Ad. Sydney. 
e. Ad. Paramatta. A. G. Butler, Esq. [P.]. 
f. Ad. Australia. C. Darwin, Esq. [r-. 
g. Ad. Australia, P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 
A-t. Ad. & hey. Australia. Lord Derby [P.]. 
‘k-m. Ad. & her. Australia. 
Var. essingtonii.. 
Hinulia essingtonii, Gray, Cat. p. 78. 
Tiliqua essingtonii, Gray, Zool. Miscell, 1842, p. 51. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) essingtonii, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, 
xiii, 1878, p. 345. 
The vertebral band is absent or indicated only on the nape, and 
the sides of the head, neck, and body, instead of being regularly 
striped, are light-spotted on a dark ground. In every other respect 
this form does not differ from ZL, teniolatum. 
North Australia. 
a. Ye. Port Essington. Mr. Gilbert [C.]. (Type. 
do, Ad. Australia. Sir J. Richasdava pe , 
c, Her. Australia. 
5. Lygosoma fischeri. 
Hinulia muelleri, Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1882, p. 295, pl. xvi. 
figs. 16-19, 
Distinguished from L. teniolatum in having 30 scales round the 
middle of the body. Brownish yellow above, with a fine blackish 
light-edged vertebral line, which is sometimes absent; two or three 
fine light longitudinal lines on each side, the interspaces between 
them largely spotted with blackish. : 
Nicol Bay, N.W. Australia, 
