SI 2 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HERPETOLOGY OP QUEENSLAND, 



rostral cleft is complete), nasal, labials, body, limbs and digits ; 

 nor from (E. tryoni in tbe mental. From the latter species it is 

 thus distinguished : the scales of the head are as large as or larger 

 than the dorsals, flat, sub-equal, roundish or oval ; the dorsals 

 are one-seventh of the diameter of the eye ; preanal pores in the 

 male 16-21 ; tail fusiform, arched above, more or less flattened 

 below, constricted beneath behind the base ; the basal portion much 

 swollen in the male and having one or two small tubercles on each 

 side. Colouring a reappearance of the family pattern, dark vinous 

 brown above with five pale cross bands, the anterior ones curving 

 forward, that behind the occiput continued over the ear to the 

 gape, the bands more or less dark-centred and white-edged ; the 

 broader interspaces and the top of the head more or less pale 

 spotted ; the dark ground colour passes as a band through the eye 

 to the snout. In the young the colours ai-e more contrasted and 

 their limits better defined. The cross-bands may be reduced to 

 pairs of oblong spots on the vertebral line. 



Total length ... 130 mm. Fore limb ... 22-5 mm. 



Head, length ... 20 Hind limb ...28 



Head, width ... 16-5 Tail 55 



Body 55 



Log. — Charleville, S. W. Queensland. 



Claim to specific rank is in this case founded on the complete 

 cleft of the rostral, equal size of the vertical and dorsal scales, and 

 reproduction of the gecko pattern of colouring obsolete in the 

 other species of the genus. 



AGAMID^. 



GrAMMATOPHORA INERMIS. 



Habit stout. Head small ; snout longer than orbit, a third 

 longer than upper eyelid ; nostril nearly central, directed dorso- 

 caudad. Vertical diameter of tympanum a little shorter than 

 upper eyelid ; sides of neck strongly plicate, no dorso-lateral fold. 

 Body depressed ; limbs strong, short, the adpressed hind limb 

 reaching the shoulder. Tail round, depressed at base, a little 

 longer than head and body. Head scales rugosely sub-tubercular, 



