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Var. 1. The dorsal spots in one series. 

 a — c. Adult and young, in spirits. Van Diemen's Land. 

 d, e. In spirits. V. D. Land. Presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. 

 /. In spirits. V. D. Land. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 

 g — i. Stuffed. V. D. Land. 



"Var. 2. or young, with the dorsal spots in 2 series, separated 

 by a broad central streak. 



G. muricata Adeladensis, Grat/, Grey^s Trav. ii. 

 j — /. Young, in spirits. Throat and chest black varied. Swan 



River. 

 m — 0. Young, in spirits. Throat sometimes black-lined. W. 



Australia. 



Var. 3, or young, pale olive. 

 p. In spirits. Throat black-varied, with a black abdominal streak. 



W. Australia. 

 q, i\ In spirits. Throat paler. W. Australia. 



*%*¥: JS'ape slightly crested. Scales subequal uniform. 



The Black-spotted Grammatophore. Grammatophora 

 maculata. Uromastyx maculata, Gray^ Griffith, A. K. ix. 62. 

 Grammatophora Gaimardi, Dum. et Bib. E. G, iv. 470. 



Back black-spotted, with 2 black streaks along the tail, a 

 rhomboidal black spot across the chest, and an angular black band 

 under the throat ; scales rhomboidal, oblong, strongly keeled, im- 

 bricate ; nape with a rudimentaiy scaly crest ; ears large, without 

 any tubercles near them ; hinder toes and claws very slender, ta- 

 pering ; nostril near the orbit. 



Inhab. New Holland, at the Bay of Sea Dogs. Mus. Paris. 



The Swan River Grammatophore. Grammatophora De- 

 cresii, Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 472. 



Back olive brown ; throat yellowish, veined with black ; chest 

 brownish ; scales of the ])ody rhomboidal, high, tented, as long as 

 broad, of the belly similar, but flat ; hinder toes and claws mode- 

 rate ; nostril in the middle of the side of the face ; plait on the 

 sides of the neck and round the ears rough with small tubercles, 

 and with 2 groups of tubercles on the side of the neck. 



Inhab. Australia, Swan River. Mus. Paris. 



The Yellow-spotted Geammatophore. Grammatophora 

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



Black ; the back with a series of large yellow spots, smaller 

 on the sides; the tail and limbs yellow-banded, beneath yellow ; 

 the throat black-dotted ; chest blackish ; nape with a slight scaly 

 crest ; ears with a few tubercular scales in front ; neck with 3 or 

 4 groups of short tubercular scales on each side ; the scales small, 

 ovate, imbricate, keeled, of the middle of the back rather larger, 



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