Reptilia.] 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
429 
Genus TILIQUA. Gray. 
Pedes quatuor pentadactyli, poris femoralibus nullis. 
Caput scutaturn ; dentes in palato nulli. 
Truncus regulariter squamosus. 
This genus is distinguished from the true Scinks by the 
want of Palatine teeth, the shorter body, and the holes of 
the ears being furnished on their front part with a fringe. 
It differs from the succeeding Genus, Trachysaurus, in the 
head being covered with distinct flat plates, and the whole 
of the body with cut hexangular scales; the scales are 
harder than those of the true Scink, but not so distinctly 
bony as those of the Trachysaurus. 
4. Tiliqua tuberculata. Gray. 
Lacerta Scincoides, Shaw, Nat. Misc. 
Lacerta occidua, var. Shaw, Zool. iij. 2S9. 
Scincus tuberculatus, Merrem. Syst. Amph. 73, 
Scincoid, or Skink-formed Lizard, White, Jour. 242. 
Icon, White, 1. c. t. 30. Shaw, N. M. t. 179 ,* Zool. iij. t. 81. 
This Lizard, which was first described in the excellent jour- 
nal of Mr. White, does not appear to be uncommon on the 
coast of Australia, as there are several specimens both in 
the British Museum and in the collection of the Linnean 
Society, that were probably taken in the neighbourhood of 
the colony ; the specimen before me was caught at Seal 
Island, in King George the Third’s Sound. 
The scales of the whole of the body are broad, hexan- 
gular, with five or six longitudinal, slightly- raised ridges, 
which gradually taper, and are lost just before they reach 
the margin. The legs are short, thick; the toes of the 
fore-feet are rather short, the outer reaching to the middle 
of the second, the second and third equal ; the fourth reach- 
ing to the last joint of the third, and the little one to the 
second joint of the fourth finger. In the hind foot the first 
and third toe are nearly equal, and only half as long as the 
