160 CHARACTERS OF A XAK E I)- EYED SCINK, APPARENTLY NEW. 



Macropodidas, in which basal extensions and level crests are almost 

 characteristic feature*. It is at the same time a decidedly aberrant 

 form, and it is difficult to surmise to what particular mode of life 

 the animal was adapted. Clearly the nature of its food was such as 

 to require two conditions of the teeth — first, the usual one in the 

 family of continuity of the grinding surface to pievent impaction of 

 the food between the teeth ; and secondly, mutual contact c f the teeth 

 to such an extent, that the front lobe of each should be supported 

 ! v the hinder lobe of the next in advance. Whence the necessity 

 for such support and whence the separation of the alveoli eventuating 

 in the seeming production of the crown at each end to secure such 

 support, these are questions which may, perhaps, receive an answer 

 from future discovery. 



CHARACTERS OF A NAKED-EYED SCINK 

 APPARENTLY NEW. 



By C. W, DkVis, M.A. 



Miculia orientalis - 



Snout short, equal in length to the distance of -the ear-orifice 

 from the rictus, a little expanded apically, and over-reaching 

 the mandible ; eye completely surrounded by rather elongate 

 granules; nasals meeting in a short suture ; fronto-nasals and 

 frontal in a broad suture ; frontal longer tkan the fronto — and 

 interparietals together and in contact with two supraoculars ; 

 fronto-parietals paired, interparietal distinct, the three subequal; 

 supraoculars three, of which the mesial is twice the size of the 

 others. Five supraciliaries, the mesial one much enlarged. 

 „ Pref on tals small, remote. Two pairs of nuchals exclusive of 

 the temporals. Three supralabials before the subocular \ pre* 

 anals enlarged ; ear orifice minute, distinct ; scales of the body 

 in 18 rows, smooth. Limbs tetradactyle, short: digits of pes 

 moderately long and slender, of manus very short. Bronzed 



