280 : SCINCIDE. 
one or two obtuse lobules. 26 or 28 scales round the middle of the 
body; dorsals largest and sometimes feebly striated. Praanals not 
or scarcely enlarged. The adpressed limbs usually fail to meet. 
Digits cylindrical ; subdigital lamelle smooth, 19 to 23 under the 
fourth toe. Tail once and one third to once and three fourths the 
length of head and body. Bronzy olive above, with a black, light- 
edged lateral band; frequently, the light lateral streaks are again 
edged with black and a vertebral black streak is present; lower 
surfaces greyish or greenish white. 
millim. millim., 
Total length ...... 173 Fore limb ........ 15 
1 re 12 Hind limb........ 23 
_ Width ofhead .... 8 Pas fe hiy ats hea 8 110 
BOO YE ie sig: bie ose don vhs 51 
Southern Australia, Tasmania. 
a-e. Ad. &hgr. N.S. Wales, G. Krefft, Esq. 
f. Ad. Sydney. 
g-k. Ad. Tasmania. R. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 
im. Ad. Tasmania. Dr. Milligan [P.]. 
nr. Ad. & hgr. Tasmania. Sir A. Smith [P-]. 
s-u. Ad, W. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C-}. T 
v. Ad. W. Australia. kc Ypes.) 
w, Ad. Albany, 8.W. Aus- H. Ling Roth, Esq. [P.]. 
tralia. 
as, Ad. Swan River. 
74, Lygosoma metallicum. (Prare XXII. fig, 1.) 
Mocoa ocellata, part., Gray, Cat. p. 82. 
Mocoa metallica, O’Shaughn, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, 
p. 299. 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb is contained once and two fifths to once and two 
thirds in the distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, 
obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disk. Nostril 
pierced in the nasal ; no supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, 
forming a suture with the rostral and with the frontal ; latter shield 
shorter than frontoparietul and interparietal together, in contact 
with the first and second supraoculars; four supraoculars, second 
largest; six or seven supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single (in one 
specimen divided) ; interparietal distinct ; parietals forming a suture 
behind the interparietal ; a pair of nuchals and a pair of temporals 
border the parietals; fifth upper labial largest and entering the 
orbit. Ear-opening roundish, as large as or a little larger than the 
transparent palpebral disk, without distinct lobules. 24 to 28 
scales round the middle of the body; dorsals largest and usually 
more or less distinctly striated or pluricarinate. Preanals not or 
scarcely enlarged. The adpressed limbs meet or slightly overlap. 
Digits cylindrical ; subdigital lamelle smooth, 18 to 22 under the 
