236 SCINCID. 
the rostral ; prefrontals in contact with their inner angles; frontal 
as long as frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the 
three anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars ; eight supraciliaries, 
first and last largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 
equal in length ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparictal ; 
a pair of irregular nuchals ; sixth and seventh upper labials below 
the eye. Ear-opening suboval, much smaller than the eye-opening, 
with four projecting granules on the anterior border. 386 smooth, 
subequal scales round the middle of the body. A pair of slightly 
enlarged preanals. The adpressed limbs fail to meet. Digits short, 
compressed ; subdigital lamellae smooth, divided, 25 under the fourth 
toe. Tail very thick. Pale brown above, with broad dark brown 
cross bands, nine between the head and the base of the tail ; lower 
surfaces white. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 277 Fore limb ........ 29 
Head! Sogn. sues 27 Hind limb........ 38 
Width of head .... 19 Tail (reproduced) .. 150 
BOY ts dias tebe! olan 100 
Western Australia. 
a, Ad, Houtman’s Abrolhos. B. Bynoe, Esq. [P.]. (Type.) 
16. Lygosoma fasciolatum. (Prats XIV. fig. 1.) 
? Kuprepes striatulus, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 49. 
Hinulia fasciolata, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. &) xXx. 1867, p. p. 47. 
Habit lacertiform, limbs rather short; the distance between the 
end of the snout and the fore limb is contained once and one fourth 
to once and two fifths in the distance between axilla and groin. 
- Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelidscaly. Nostril pierced in asingle 
nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming a 
narrow suture with the rostral and with the frontal; latter as long 
as frontoparietals and parietals together, in contact with the two or 
three anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars; nine or ten supra- 
ciliaries ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, equal in length, 
or latter shorter than former ; parietals forming a suture behind the 
interparietal; three enlarged scales on each side border the parietals ; 
sometimes three pairs of nuchals; sixth and seventh, or sixth to 
eighth, upper labials below the eye. Ear-opening suboval, much 
smaller than the eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 32 or 34 
smooth scales round the middle of the body ; laterals smallest. A 
pair of large preanals. The adpressed limbs meet, nearly meet, or 
overlap. Digits rather short, slightly compressed ; subdigital 
lamelle tubercularly keeled, divided, 20 to 23 under the fourth toe. 
Tail very thick, a little longer than head and body; upper caudal 
scales obtusely keeled, the keels forming continuous lines, Pale 
brown above, with rather irregular narrow dark brown cross bands, 
ometimes interrupted, obliquely descending forwards on the sides ; 
