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larger, and form a line on the dorsolateral edge ; some of the 

 scales paler, and on the upper surface of the tail forming a more 

 or less regular series of pairs of pale spots ; sides with or without 

 oblique streaks of dark brown ; a dark brown line from the 

 snout through the eye to the neck ; beneath pale brown ; a white- 

 streak on the hinder basal surface of thigh ; dorsal scales with four 

 or five pigment streaks. 



Total length 



Head, length 



Head, width 



Body 

 Loc. — Gympie. 



Differs from H. mustelina, O'Shaugh., in its proportions and 

 style of colouring, and in the greater number of lamellae under 

 the fourth toe. 



MOCOA DKLICATA. 



Habit slender ; snout short, obtuse, depressed. Rostral low ; 

 nasofrontal much broader than long, forming a straight broad 

 suture with the rostral, and a narrow one with the frontal ;. 

 frontal small, as long as the frontoparietal, which is single ; inter- 

 parietal incompletely separate, moderate in size ; supraoculai's 

 four, the second much larger than the first, first and second in 

 contact with the frontal ; seven supraciliaries ; parietals forming 

 a long sutui-e behind tlie interpai'ietal ; one or two pairs of 

 nuchals ; fifth supralabial largest and subocular. Ear orifice a 

 little shorter than the eyelids, without lobules. Scales in 24 rows, 

 smooth, laterals smallest ; a pair of enlarged preanals. The 

 adpressed limbs barely meet ; 20 smooth lamellae under the fourth 

 toe. Tail one-fourth longer than head and body. Pale olive brown, 

 above minutely and sparsely brown-spotted in longitudinal lines ; 

 sides rather dark, defined above by a narrow blackish above 

 obscurely pale-edged line commencing at the eye : beneath pale 

 bluish-brown. 



Total length ... 85 mm. Fore limb ... 11 mm.^ 



Head, length ... 7-5 Hind limb ... 14-5 



Head, width ... 5 Tail 47 



Body 30-5 



