M. Bibron in the work quoted observes:  La Soridia lineata de M. Gray n’est pas different d’une espece de Scincoiden du Cap que nous avons vue dans la collection de M. Smith a Chatham et de laquelle nous avions pris une description qui s’est malheureusement egaree.  Page 787.  And again:  Nous croyons que c’est par erreur que M. Gray a indique cette espece comme provenant de la Nouvelle Hollande, nous pensons plutot qu’elle est originaire du Cap, et la meme que celle dont nous parlions tout a l’heure ou le Scincoidien que d’accord avec le Dr. Smith nous nous proposions d’appeller Praepeditus lineatus.  Page 788.

I do not know what Dr. Smith’s animal may be, but the account of Praepeditus, given by M. Bibron, is only a translation of my description of Soridia!  It is not probable that this animal should come both from Australia and the Cape.  It is certainly from New Holland.

44.  APRASIA.

The head small, shielded; muzzle rounded, rather produced, with two pairs of large frontal shields, covering the cheeks, a large six-sided elongated vertebral shield, and a pair of small superciliar shields; rostral and labial shields large, few; the nostrils small, in the sutures between the tip of the front upper labial, and the anterior frontal plates; eyes circular, edged with a series of small scales; pupil round; ears none; body and tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with hexangular scales, the ventral shields rather broader; limbs none.

By some mistake the slip containing the description of this genus in my synopsis of the slender-tongued Saurians got into the wrong place with the Tiliquae instead of being near Anguis.

56.  Grammatophora muricata.

The young animals have a series of small spines on each side of the base of the tail, and a series of spots on each side of the back.

Mr. Gould has brought home two very distinct local varieties.

Var. 1 diemenensis.  Young dark-coloured, with vermiculated marks on the chin, chest, and abdomen.  The adult dark, beneath gray, varied with black spots placed in irregular lines.

Inhabits Van Diemen’s Land.

Var. 2 adelaidensis.  Young pale above and beneath, with three broad diverging black lines on the chin, leaving an oblong spot in the centre of the throat, with a broad streak on the chest separated into three lines on the abdomen, which unite together again on the pubis.  The adult gray, with a few spots beneath.

58.  Grammatophora decresii, Dumeril and Bibron, Erp.  Gen. 4 472. ?

Tail conical, with nearly regular scales, the base rather swollen, without any series of spines on the side; the nape and back with a series of rather larger, low, compressed scales; back with small sub-equal scales, and a few larger ones in cross series; side of the head near the ears and side of neck with two or three ridges crowned with short conical spines.  In spirits black, yellow spotted and varied, beneath gray, vermiculated with blackish; tail black-ringed.