The reproduction and general habits of two small sympatrically occurring skinks from the Wet Tropics region are described. Saproscincus  tetradactylus was active year-round and was mainly crepuscular but also diurnal. The species was terrestrial, inhabiting moist, shaded leaf litter and was rarely seen in direct sun. It also used surface stones as both refugia and oviposition sites. The species had an invariant clutch size of two. Eggs were found in all months of the year except June, but with peaks occurring in February and October–November. Mean hatchling size was:   snout-to-vent length (SVL) 15.0 mm, tail length (TL) 15.9 mm and mass 0.06 g. Lampropholis similis was active year-round, diurnal, terrestrial and mainly inhabited leaf litter receiving partial sun where it routinely basked and used surface stones as oviposition sites but rarely as refugia. The species produced one to three eggs between September and February with a peak in egg-laying activity in November. Mean hatchling size was: SVL 17.7 mm, TL 20.5 mm and mass 0.12 g. The mean natural incubation time for S. tetradactylus  eggs was 40.6 days while for L. similis eggs it was 42.7 days.