500 REPTILES FROM NEW GUINEA.. 



the eye to the groin well defined from the brown of the upper 

 surface and strongly contrasting with the pale buff of the lower 

 surface. Chin and throat lead black ; sides of tail with pale 

 blotches in almost regular series. 



Total length 408mm. Width of head 20mm. 



Length of head 26 Fore limb 37 



Length of head and neck 58 Hind limb 55 



Length offlank 72 Fourth toe 14-5 



Length of body 92 Tail 290 



One example. 



Heteropus bicarinatus, Macl. 



A variety without longitudinal streaks, flecked all over the 

 upper surface with black and green specks ; tail salmon colour. 

 Preanals enlarged. Ear orifice larger than normal. Subdigital 

 lamellae 26, scale-rows 30. 



Heteropus fuscus, D. & B. 



A well marked colour variety. The back and sides variegated 

 more or less with greenish white spots which form a conspicuous 

 marbling on the sides of the neck ; a white band from the ear to 

 beneath the eye constant. In one of the three specimens the 

 interparietal is completely fused with the frontoparietal. The 

 infradigital plates are in two cases 26, in the third 33 ; the scale 

 rows 36-38. From these characters it seems probable that H. 

 rhomboidalis, Pet., is also a variety of H. fuscus. 



ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN 



LEPIDOPTERA, 

 WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By T. p. Lucas, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A., and L.R.C.P., Ed. 



