282 SCINCID. 
darker and lighter spots; vertebral region sometimes darker; a 
dark brown lateral band, edged above and below by a light streak ; 
greenish white inferiorly, sometimes with blackish dots. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 97 Fore limb........ 11 
Head ............ 9 Hind limb........ 15 
Width of head .... 6 PGA, as 35 cal a racaenete 57 
Body. veces sived. 31 
South Australia. 
a, Ad. Sydney. 
b-e. Ad. Swan River. 
Sig, h-i. Ad. S. Australia. G. Krefit, Esq. 
k, Ad. Australia. Paris Museum. 
76. Lygosoma pretiosum. (Prare XXII. fig. 2.) 
Mocoa pretiosa, O’Shaughn. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 298. 
—— microlepidota, O’Shaughn. 1. c. p. 299. 
Habit lacertiform. The distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb is contained jonce and two fifths 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 a little shorter than 
frontoparietal and interparietal together, in contact with the two 
anterior supraoculars ; four supraoculars, second largest ; seven or 
eight supraciliaries; frontoparietal single; a small interparietal; 
parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; a pair of 
nuchals and a pair of temporals border the parietals; fifth upper 
labial largest and eatering the orbit. Har-opening oval, larger than 
the transparent palpebral disk. 34 to 38 scales round the middle 
of the body ; dorsals largest, striated or feebly pluricarinate. Pra- 
anals not enlarged. The adpressed limbs meet or overlap. Digits 
cylindrical ; subdigital lamelle smooth, 20 to 22 under the fourth 
toe. Tail a little longer than head and body. Olive above, with 
small darker and lighter spots; a blackish lateral band; a blackish 
vertebral streak may be present; lower surfaces greenish ; lips and 
throat black-dotted. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 119 Fore limb........ 16 
Head............ 1] Hind limb........ 22 
Width of head .... 8 ea wt ccs aeetn be 65 
Bod sacstiscecsvnrs sade ss 43 
Tasmania. 
a, Ad. Tasmania. R. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. (Type) 
6. Ad. Tasmania. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.] (Type of 
Mocoa microlemdota.) 
