338 SCINCID A. 
Body much elongate; fore limb absent; hind limb minute, mono- 
dactyle. Snout cuneiform, with angularly projecting labial edge. 
Eye very small. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. Nostril 
pierced in a large nasal, which forms a suture with its fellow. 
Frontonasal broad ; no prefrontals; a single (loreal) shield on each 
side of the head between the nostril and the eye; frontal very 
large: two small supraoculars; frontoparietals. and interparietal 
fused into a single large shield, behind which the band-like parietals 
form a suture; two or three pairs of nuchals; third upper labial 
entering the orbit. Ear-opening scarcely distinguishable. 16 
smooth scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals largest. A pair 
of enlarged preanals. Hind limb styliform, as long as three 
adjacent scales. Tail as thick as, and shorter than, the body. 
Brownish white, with two series of dark brown dots along the 
middle of the back and a broad dark brown lateral band. 
From snout to vent 66 millim., tail 59. 
Western Australia. 
a. Several spec. : W. Australia. (Types.) 
ad. & her. 
bd. Ad. W. Australia. Mr. Duboulay [C. 
e~d. Ad. —? Sir A. Sith PP t (Types of 
Pholeophilus capensis.) 
e. Ad. —?P 
152. Lygosoma muelleri *. 
Elania mulleri, Gray, Cat. p. 80. 
Scineus miilleri, Schleg. Ablild. p. 18, pl. iil. 
Lygosoma miilleri, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 740. 
—— (Elania) miilleri, var. jobiana, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, 
p. 182. 
—— at miilleri, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, 
46, 
p. 3 
Elania miilleri, Seuvage, Bull. Soc, Philom. (7) iti. 1879, p. 56. 
Body elongate, limbs moderate ; the distance between the end of 
the snout and the fore limb is contained once and three fourths or 
twice in the distance between axilla and groin. Head very small, 
much depressed: snout long, obtusely acuminate. Lower eyelid 
scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal; no, supranasal; rostral 
narrowed and produced posteriorly between the nasals, forming a 
narrow suture with the frontonasal, which is as long as broad or a 
little broader than long, and in contact with the frontal; latter 
nearly as large as frontoparietals and interparietal together, nearly 
as broad as long, broader than the supraocular region, in contact 
with the first supraciliary and the two anterior supracculars; four 
supraoculars; seven or eight supraciliaries; frontoparietals and 
interparietal distinct, subequal ; parietals forming a suture behind 
* Described from specimens in the Berlin Museum. 
