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shorter ; upper labials eleven, lower nine ; pupil elliptical ; ear 

 opening oblique, oval ; toes dilated with about eight pairs of very- 

 short and broad plates beneath ; preanal pores fifteen ; tail 

 shorter than the body, round and tapering, with a row of broad 

 plates beneath ; colour above yellowish brown, marbled with 

 darker, beneath yellowish. 



Length, 4 inches. 



Hab. Cape Grenville. 



This species also is quite of the Gehyra type, but the plates 

 beneath the toes are distinctly divided. 



33. — Peripia marmorata. 



Muzzle obtuse ; a deep rectangular emargination on the upper 

 part of the rostral shield, and a space between the internasals 

 filled with granular scales ; upper labials twelve, the last three or 

 four small, lower eleven, the last three very minute ; chin shields 

 as in the last species ; ear openings large and deep ; toes much 

 dilated, with ten or twelve very short and broad pairs of plates 

 beneath ; tail much shorter than the body, slightly depressed and 

 tapering gradually to a point, with the middle scales beneath 

 larger than the others, but not so wide as those of the last 

 species ; form rather robust and flat ; colour above, marbled 

 black, brown, and grey, beneath dingy white. 



Length, 6 inches. 



Hab. Katow. 



34 — Peripia brevicaudis. 



Form robust and rather depressed ; tail shoit, somewhat 

 depressed, broad and strangulated at the base and pointed at the 

 tip ; rostral and internasal shields as in the last species ; chin 

 shields with smaller ones at the sides ; labials about nine above 

 and below, the posterior shields minute ; ear openings small and 

 round ; preanal pores thirty-one ; toes dilated with about ten 

 short and broad divided plates beneath ; colour reddish-brown, 

 varied with black and grey. 



Length, 6 inches. 



Ilab. Darnley Island. 



