Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/454

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Gemus TILI(?UA. ?. - Ped? quatuor pentadactyli, pods femoralibus nullls. ?put scutatum; d?u?s in ? nulli. This genus is distinguished from the true 8cinks by the' want of palatine teeth, the shorter.body, and ?e h?es ot the ears being f?rnished on their front part with a fringe.. It differs from the succeeding Geuus, FracA?/sa,rus, in the head being covered with distinct flat plates, end.the who?e of ?he-body with cut hexangular scales; the scales'.are herder than those of the true Stink, but .not so ?lMinctly' bony as those of the Trae/sysam'as. 4. .TnaquA TUBaneUL?Ta. Lacerta Sciocoides, Sisnay, Nat. Idaefta occidua, vat. SAran, ?,oe/. iij. Scincus tuberculagus, Mes. s'em. $?sg. dm/?A. 78. Scincoid, or SLink-formed Lizard, WAite, Icon. ;KAige, i. c. t. 00. $/ussa, N.M. t. 179; ?,oo/. iij. t.. Sl.. This Lizard, which was first described in the excelleutjou r- hal of Mr. White, does not appear to be uncommon on the coast of Australia, as there are several specimens both i?. the British Museum and in the collection of the Linnean. Society, that were probably taken in the neighboarhood 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 g?adually taper, and are lost just before they reach the margin. T?e legs ?re sho? thick; the toes ot the fore-feet are redder 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 th? fourth finger. In the hind foot the first and third toe are nearly equal, and only half as long as the