BY C. W. DE VIS, M.A. 813 



largest on centre of supraorbital region and on the snout ; a few 

 small isolated spines behind the tympanum, before it a line of 

 thick cuneiform scales, and between this and the eye a second line. 

 Gulars rhomboidal, smooth, smaller than ventrals, which also are 

 smooth. Dorsals smooth, as large as ventrals, with a median line 

 and scattered number of enlarged flat smooth scales, becoming 

 on the sides thicker and sub-mucronate. Caudals above and below 

 and scales of the limbs sharply keeled and subspinose. A series 

 of 18 or 19 pores extending the whole length of the thigh, inter- 

 rupted opposite vent. Brown or yellowish-white, densely reticu- 

 lated with black or brown, the reticulations wider on the occiput. 

 Tail with a series of dark rings above. 



Total length ... 101-5 mm. Fore limb... ... 34 mm. 



Head, length ... 24 Hind limb ... 54 



Head, width ... 21 Tail 103 



Body 74-5 



Log. — Central Queensland (collected by Mr. C W. de Burgh Birch). 

 Separated from G. reticidatics, to which it has a strong general 

 resemblance, on account of its enlarged supra-orbitals and reduced 

 number of preanal and femoral pores. 



VARANIDiE. 



A Va7'anus from the Herbert Gorge corresponds so closely 

 in structui'al characters with V. acayithurus, Blgr., that, so far as 

 they are concerned, it is impossible to separate it. Yet the 

 colouring, a mere dark vermiculation on a brown ground, is so 

 entirely different from that of V. acanthuriis, that it is difficult to 

 believe it to be the same lizard. 



S C I N C I D .E. 

 EGERNINA. 



Egernia lauta, n. sp. 



No distinct postnarial groove, a subnarial suture. Nasals 

 forming a median suture ; prefrontals likewise ; frontal nearly 

 twice as long as broad ; much larger than the interparietal ; live 

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