272 SCINCIDE, 
lamellae smooth, 28 or 29 under the fourth toe. Tail about once 
and a half the length of head and body. Black above, spotted all 
over with pale olive, or olive dotted with black; lower surfaces 
greenish or pale olive. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- BodVivnss tates s 84 
produced) ...... 215 Fore limb........ 30 
Head oi aictewies' 20 Hind limb ...... 42 
Width of head .... 14 
New Zealand. 
a, Ad, N. Zealand, South Island. (Type.) 
b. Yg. N. Zealand. Wellington Museum. (As 
typical of Mocoa laxa.) 
64. Lygosoma moco. 
Hinulia ornata, part., Gray, Cat. p. 77. 
Mocoa zelandica, Gray, lc. p. 82. 
owenli, Gray, lc. p. 272, 
Lygosoma moco, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 718. 
Tiliqua zelandica, Gray, in Dieffenb. N. Zeal. ii. p. 202. 
Mocoa zelandica, Gray, Zool. Lreb. & Terr., Rept. p. 8, pl. vii. fig. 4; 
Hutton, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. iv. 1872, p. 168. 
Hinulia ornata, Gray, 1. c. pl. xi. fig. 1. 
Oligosoma zelandicum, Girard, U.S, Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 246, 
pl. xavii. figs. 9-16. 
Euprepes moco, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 47. 
Hinulia variegata, Buller, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst, iii. 1871, p. 5, pl. i. 
fig. 3. 
Haven striata, Budler, 1. c. p. 6, fig. 2. 
zealandica, part., Giinth. Zool. Ereb. & Terr., Rept. p. 18. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout and 
the fore limb is contained once and a half to once and three fourths 
in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout 
short, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans- KCace 
parent disk. Nostril pierced in the centre of the 
nasal ; no supranasal; rostral nearly twice as broad 
as deep; frontonasal broader than long, forming a AA 
suture with the rostral and with the frontal; latter 
shield a little shorter than frontoparietals and inter- 
parietal together, in contact with the two anterior Front and upper 
supracculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; six ss tae = 4 es 
or seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, a Ehevostral ahieta 
little longer than the interparietal; parietals in . 
contact behind the interparietal, bordered by a pair of nuchals 
and a pair of temporals; two to five pairs of nuchals; usually, 
fifth upper labial below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening 
roundish or oval, much larger than the transparent palpebral disk ; 
usually with one or two projecting granules or small lobules. 
28 to 32 smooth scales round the middle of the body; dorsals 
largest. Preeanal scales not or scarcely enlarged. The adpressed 
limbs meet or fail to meet. Digits moderately long, subcylindrical ; 
subdigital lamelle smooth, 20 to 28 under the fourth toe. Tail once 
