816 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HERPETOLOGY OF QUEENSLAND, 



Total length ... 321 mm. 

 Head, length ... 28 

 Head, width ... 22 

 Body, length ... 94 

 Loc. — Herbert Gorge, (collected by Mr. K. Broadbent). 

 Resembles in many features E. doi'salis, Peters, bat, apart from 

 the ruggedness of the head shields, it differs in having a longer 

 head and limbs, and a shorter tail. 



TILIQUINA. 



TiLIQUA LONGICAUDA. 



No postnarial groove. Rostral in contact with frontonasal ; 

 prefrontals forming a long median suture ; interparietal narrower 

 than the parietals ; parietals widely separated posteriorly by the 

 anterior occipitals, which are enlarged and triangular, and are 

 followed by two or three pairs of occipitals much broader than 

 long ; four supraoculars ; live supraciliaries ; temporals sub- 

 equal. Ear orifice shorter than the eyelids, without lobules. 

 Scales in 30 rows, smooth ; dorsals and ventrals equal. Forelimb 

 shorter than the head, twice and one-thiid to twice and two-thirds 

 in the length of the flanks. Tail longer than the head and body, 

 compressed. Above yellowish, with five double cross bars between 

 shoulder and hip ; a broad bar in front of the ear, and another on 

 the middle of the face through the eye, each joining its fellow on 

 the throat and chin ; a streak from the eye passing over the 

 temple, and a pair of occipital sti'eaks converging on the inter- 

 parietal ; parts of the head-shields broadly dark-edged : beneath 

 pale brown. By confluence of the cross bands the whole upper 

 surface of the body and tail may be black. 



Total length ... 328 mm. Forelimb ... 40 mm. 

 Head, length ... 41 Hind limb ... 46.5 



Head, width ... 27 Tail 176 



Body Ill 



Loc. — Rockhampton, (collected by Mr. Jaggard) ; Johnstone 

 River, (collected by Mr. W. H. Miskin). 



The absence of the postnarial groove, and the length of the tail 

 are sufiiciently distinctive — indeed genei'ically abnormal. 



