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276 SCINCID. 
cylindrical ; subdigital lamella smooth, 16 to 18 under the fourth 
toe. Brown above with a few darker dots; a dark brown irregular 
dorso-lateral streak, edged above with yellowish; flanks with light, 
dark-edged spots; lips mottled with dark brown; throat spotted 
with dark brown. 
millim. millim. 
From snout tovent. 59 Fore limb ........ 12 
Head.........-45 11 Hind limb........ 17 
Width of head .... T5 
New Zealand. 
a-b. Ad. N. Zealand. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.]. 
c,d, Ad. N. Zealand. 
69. Lygosoma entrecasteauxii. 
Mocoa entrecasteauxii, Gray, Cat. p. 82. 
Lygosoma entrecasteauxii, Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 717. " 
ocoa pseudocarinata, O’Shaughn. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, 
p. 800. 
pseudotropis, 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 two fifths to once and three 
fourths in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 
obtuse. Lower eyelid with a very large transparent disk, the eye 
being nearly entirely distinct when the lid is closed. Nostril pierced 
in the nasal; no supranasal; frontonasal broader than long, forming 
a suture with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield as long as 
or a little shorter than frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 
contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, 
second largest; five or six supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, 
longer than the interparietal ; parietals forming a suture behind the 
interparietal ; two or three pairs of nuchals ; fifth, rarely sixth, upper 
labial largest and entering the orbit. Ear-opening roundish, smaller 
than the transparent palpebral disk, without distinct lobules. 28 
to 32 scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest and usually 
more or less distinctly striated or obtusely pluricarinate. Praanals 
not or scarcely enlarged. The adpressed limbs usually meet or 
overlap. Digits cylindrical; subdigital lamelle smooth, 17 to 20 
under the fourth toe. Tail once and one third to once and two 
thirds the length of head and body. Olive above, with three black 
longitudinal bands, laterals broadest and edged above and below by 
a light streak; lower surfaces greyish or greenish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 124 Fore limb........ 14 
Head............ 10 Hind limb........ 18 
Width of head .... 7 MPAA: cs tetova! cerecigns 73 
Body .........0.. 41 
Tasmania. 
