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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF LIZARDS AND OF 

 A TREE-FROG FROM NORTH- EASTERN QUEENSLAND. 



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By in\. A. GUNTHER, F.R.S. 



(Plates XL, XII.) 



H. W. S. DAY, who has collected iu Australia aud New Guinea tor the 

 Triug Museum for some years past, has sent to me a few reptiles which he 

 iilitaiiied iu the Bartle Frere Mountains. Althouijh specimens from tin; same 

 district seem to have previously reached the Sydney and Brisbane Museums, and have 

 been ably described in Australian Journals, I found in the consignment sent by 

 Mr. Day some interesting forms which I am unable to identify from the descriptions 

 jinblished. 



Carphodactylus gen. no v. Geckon. 



Digits rather slender, without any dilated portion, not fringed, with a row of 

 transverse lamellae below. Claws projecting, rooted between five small scutes, a 

 I)air on each side, and a median unpaired one above. The two or three distal joints 

 are angularly bent. Body covered witli flat, very minute granules ; larger tubercles 

 along the median line of the back, forming a sort of crest. Tail compressed, 

 tapering. 



1. Carphodactylus laevis sp. uov. 

 (Plate XI.) 



Habit slender. Head broad, very distinct from neck, depressed, concave 

 between the eyes and in the loreal region. Crown of the head bony and finely 

 rugose, without tubercles. Eyes large, directed i)b]i(piely forwards, about midway 

 between ear-opening and nostril ; upper eye-lid thin, with sharp i)rojecting margin. 

 Nostril small, iu the hinder edge of a rather large nasal ; nasals separated by a 

 patch of small flat scutes. Ear-opening vertical, oval, about one-fourth the size of 

 the eye. Rostral large, undivided ; upper labials seventeen, lower fourteen ; median 

 lower labial large, pentagonal, without post-mentals. Body nearly smooth, the 

 granulations being very minute and flat. Neck \v^th larger tubercles, forming a 

 triangular patch, the apex of which passes into a median dorsal stripe of tubercles, 

 which simulates a crest, and does not exteud on the tail. A patch of small scntes 

 in the ])ubic region. No praeanal pores. Legs slender, granular, witli minute 

 tubercles. 



Tail not quite as long as the body, strongly muscular and comi)resscd in its 

 proximal portion, the distal being very thin and tapering ; there is no distinct 

 boundary between the two portions. The wjiolc tail is uniformly covered with small 

 flat granulations. 



Light chestnut-brown, with scattered black spots, about the size of the ear- 

 opening, ou the back aud sides. Lower parts whitish, with small indistinct 



