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-^^-DESCRIPTION OF AUSTRALIAN SIvINK. 
By E. P Ramsay & J. Douglas Ogilby. 
Lygosoma maccooeyi, sp* nov* 
Habit lacertiform ; the distance between the end of the snout 
and the fore limb is contained once and two-fifths in the distance 
between the axilla and groin. Snout short, obtusely rounded. 
Lower eyelid with an undivided transparent disc. Nostril pierced 
in the nasal; no supra-nasals ;f fronto-nasal much broader than 
long, forming a broad suture with the rostral, and a narrow one 
with the frontal ; prefrontals large, much bent down on the 
sides ;| frontal pentagonal, forming a rounded angle posteriorly, 
equal in length to or but little shorter than the frontoparietal, 
and in contact with the two anterior supraoculars ; four supra- 
oculars, the ‘second the largest ; seven supraciliaries ; fronto- 
parietal single, followed by a small interparietal ; parictals 
forming a median suture behind the interparietal ; a pair of 
nuchals and a pair of temporals bordering the parietals ; fifth 
upper labial much the largest, entering the eye. Ear-opening 
oval, slightly smaller than the transparent palpebral disc, with a 
single obtuse lobule anteriorly. Thirty-two scales round the 
middle of the body, the dorsals very indistinctly bi- or tricarinate, 
the laterals a little smaller than the dorsals or ventrals ; preanal 
scales slightly enlarged. The hind limb when stretched forward 
reaches the elbow; fingers four, toes five; sub-digital lamellae 
twenty to twenty three under the fourth toe. Tail one-third 
longer than the head and body. Colors -^- Above rich olive-brown, 
most of the scales from the shoulders to nearly the end of the 
tail with two or three light-blue longitudinal pencillings which 
are generally edged with black ; these are absent on the sides of 
the body, but present on those of the tail ; in some specimens 
there are two broad orange lateral bands between the limbs, 
separated by a blue band ; in others a single orange band bordered 
above and below by blue, while in a third section the orange is 
*Sii^ publishing the desciiption of the original specimen in the Proc. 
Linn. S^., N.S. Wales, Dec., \889, several fine specimens have been 
received, the examination of wbick^necessitatcs the amplification of that 
description as here given. 
fin one specimen there is a lange supra-nasal on one side, which is 
wanting on the other. 
Jin one speewne^n these shields are in contact with the second upper 
labial. 
