252 REPTILES. 



** Back with a central series of keeled scales, and ivith cross rows 

 of larger keeled scales on each side. 



The Netted Grammatophore, Grammatophora reticulata. 

 Grammatophora Deeresii, Grai/, Greys Trav. Austr. ii. Zool. Ere- 

 bus and Terror, t. (not Dum. et Bib.) 



Black, yellow-spotted and varied, beneath grey, vermiculated 

 with blackish ; tail black-ringed ; back and nape with a central 

 series of larger keeled scales, with distant cross series of similar 

 scales ; sides of the nape and paratoids with series of rather larger 

 keeled scales ; scales of the back small, subequal ; tail tapering, 

 with regular nearly equal keeled scales, and 1 or 2 cross bands of 

 larger scales at the base. 



a — c. In spirits. W. Australia. From Mr. Gilbert's collection. 



*** Back ivithout any central crest. Nape very obscurely crested. 

 Sides with series of larger scales. 



The Bearded Grammatophore. Grammatophora barbata, 

 Kaup, Isis, 1827, 621. Gray, Griffith, A. K. ix. 60. Zool. Erebus 

 and Terror, t. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 478. Agama barbata, Cuv. 

 R. A. ii. 35. Weigm. II. 31. 7. 



Pale olive, obscurely cross banded, with a dark spot on each 

 side of the neck ; chin and throat of the young brown-lined ; head 

 enlarged, and with a transverse ridge of spines behind ; scales of 

 the back irregular, the larger placed in cross series, of the throat, 

 paratoids and sides very long, slender, spreading, of the tail une- 

 qual, with irregular cross bands of larger keeled scales. 



a. Adult, stuffed. Australia. Presented by A. Cunningham, Esq. 



F.L.S. 



b. Adult, stuffed. Australia. 



c — e. In spirits. Houtman's Abrolhos. From Mr. Gilbert's col- 

 lection. 



f—h. In spirits. W. Australia, Swan Kiver. Presented by Capt. 

 G. Grey. 



i. In spirits. W. Australia. Presented by G. F. Moore, Esq. 



j, k. Young, in spirits, with cross lines of spines on occiput, like 

 adult. W. Australia. 



The Lozenge-marked Grammatophore. Grammatophora 

 angulifera, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. 



Pale brown, with a central series of angular spots ; sides with 

 cross bands ; beneath white, brown-dotted ; back with a longitu- 

 dinal series of larger keeled scales on each side of the dorsal line, 

 and with 1 or 2 other series of more keeled scales on each side ; 

 nape and back sometimes very slightly keeled and subcrested ; the 

 tail tapering, with 5 series of keeled scales at the base. 



