8. Ly@osoma. 231 
Digits slightly compressed; subdigital lamelle smooth, divided, 27 
to 32 under the fourth toe. Tail about twice as long as head and 
body. Olive-brown above, with small scattered black spots; sides 
black, with small whitish spots; a yellow dorso-lateral line; lower 
surfaces whitish ; throat, and sometimes also belly, with longitudinal 
series of black dots. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 285 Fore limb ........ 80 
Head. ccc tod asses 24 Hind limb........ 46 
Width of head .... 15 Path, co wanes bs 190 
Body ............ 7 
Australia. 
a, Ad. Australia. Lord Derby [P.]. (Types of Hi- 
6. Ad. Kangaroo Id. Zoological Society. } nulia gastro- 
ce-d, Ad. & hgr. Queensland. G. Krefft, Esq. sticta.) 
e. Ye. Rockhampton. Godeffroy Museum. 
9. Lygosoma tenue. 
Hinulia elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 76. 
tenuis, part., Gray, 1. c. 
Tiliqua tenuis, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 71, and Ann. N. H. ii. 
1838, p. 291. } 
Lygosoma erucata, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 726. 
Hinulia elegans, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr., Rept. p. 6, pl. x. fig. 1. 
tenuis, Gray, J. c. pl. xi. fig. 3; Giinth, op. ct. p. 11. 
Euprepes tenuis, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 49. 
Hlabit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and two fifths to once and a half in 
the distance between axillaand groin. Snoutshort, obtuse. Lower 
eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no supranasal ; fronto- 
nasal much broader than long, forming a broad suture with the 
rostral and in contact with the truncate anterior angle of the frontal ; 
latter shield as long as or a little shorter than frontoparietals and 
interparietal together, in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; 
four supraoculars; seven or eight supraciliaries ; frontoparietals 
and interparietal distinct, subequal or latter longest; parictals 
forming a suture behind the interparietal ; three enlarged shields 
on each side bordering the parietals; fifth and sixth upper labials 
below the eye. Ear-opening oval, as large as or a little smaller 
than the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 28 to 32 smooth scales 
round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest, laterals smallest. A 
pair of large preanals. The hind limb reaches the wrist or not 
uite so far. Digits compressed ; subdigital lamelle smooth or 
obtusely keeled, 20 to 25 under the fourth toe. Tail once and one 
fourth to once and a half as long as head and body. Pale greyish 
or brownish above, with irregular black markings sometimes forming 
a network; a series of large black spots, more or less confluent 
