PREFACE. 



This fourteenth Decade gives detailed figures, on the first plate, 

 No. 131, of the large species of Blue-tongued Lizard, Cyclodus 

 nigroluteus, found near Melbourne and generally in the southern 

 portions of the colony, where it replaces the Cyclodus gigas, 

 another Blue-tongued Lizard (previously figured on Plate 72), 

 of the warmer more northern localities. 



The second plate, No. 132, gives figures with details of 

 structure of two of the curious nocturnal climbins: Lizards called 

 Geckoes ; one illustrating the group with retractile sheathed claws 

 and dilated toes ; the other belonging to the slender-toed group 

 with non-retractile claws, without sheath. . 



The third plate illustrates another of the species of English 

 Fish sometimes occurring, though very rarely, in our waters, the 

 Ray's Bream ; one of those famed as a delicacy by the European 

 gourmand, and which appeared for the first time on the Victorian 

 coast at Portland in great numbers in April, 1884, not having 

 been seen by our fishermen before or since. 



Plate 134 gives a figure of one of the numerous beautiful 

 " Parrot-fishes " of the colony, the Labrichthys Bleekeri, not 

 figured before. 



