Males normally have longer limbs, but otherwise the sexes are hard to distinguish. 2-4 eggs are laid in a hole in the ground. The colouring is attractive, normally light olive with darker spots. Ocellated Skinks prefer very dry lowland with sandy or loamy ground. Skinks are often more colonial than other lizards, and Ocellated Skinks are often found in large numbers in one place.
Normal prey is invertebrates but large specimens occasionally attack smaller lizards.
Females give birth to 6-15 or more live young. Males have larger heads than females but otherwise there is little sexual differentiation in these lizards. Colouring is an overall coffee colour. Females give birth to 2-3 live young. This skink actually moves like a snake or slow-worm, the limbs being almost vestigial.