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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

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