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tubercles much more numerous ; tail round, tapering, about the 

 length of the body, very slightly ringed, and with the scales 

 beneath smooth, but not large ; colour, above, yellowish 

 brown, spotted and barred with deep brown or black, under 

 surface dingy yellow. Length, from 3 to 4 inches. 



I have specimens of this lizard from Fitzroy Island and 

 Endeavour River. It seems to approach very nearly to Heteronoia 

 Binoei, Gray, excepting in the tail, which, in that species is 

 described as having a series of broad shields underneath. 



37. — Heteronota eboracensis. 



Form rather robust ; head broad ; tail much shorter than the 

 body ; internasal shields rather short and not contiguous, labials 9 

 upper and 8 lower, the last two of each very small ; scales mostly 

 tricarinate ; tubercles on the back numerous and nearly smooth ; 

 scales on the tail all smooth ; colour, above speckled grey and 

 black, legs and under surface pale with numerous minute black 

 dots. 



Length, 3 inches. 



Hab. Cape York. 



Family AGAMID^E. 



38. — TlARIS PAPUENSIS. 



Head subtriangular, rounded in front, rather concave above, 

 margined by an angular slightly curved ridge from the eye to 

 the muzzle, flat on the sides and swollen behind ; rostral shield 

 more than twice as broad as high, and slightly emarginate in the 

 middle with a row of small hexagonal smooth plates behind ; 

 lower rostral rounded behind and as broad as long ; upper labials 

 11, the first seven subequal, the eighth square, and the last three 

 low and elongate ; lower labials 10, the first eight subtetragonal, 

 the two last low and elongate ; eye large, deep, and surrounded 

 by many series of small scales ; ear openings large and round 

 with the drum superficial ; nostrils oblong in the upper part of a 

 shield of the same shape ; occipital plate white, nearly round, in 

 the centre of a deep transverse furrow at the back of the head ; 



