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dinal series, or with a few series of enlarged keeled scales, 

 along the middle of the back; ventral scales larger than dor- 

 sals, strongly keeled ; two praeanal pores on each side. Tail 

 twice to two times and two thirds as long as head and body. 

 Limbs long, the hind limb, stretched forwards, reaches the 

 tympanum or the eye. 



Grey-brown or reddish above, uniform or with dark spots; 

 often two or three light bands on the back. Length of head 

 and body 70 mm.; tail 190 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Fly River, Dinawa in Owen Stanley 

 Range). — N. Australia. 



2. Diporophora australis (Steind.). 



Calotclla australis^ Steindachner, Novara, Rept. 1869, p. 29, pi. i, fig. 9. 

 Diporophora australis^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 394 (s. syn.). 



Diftering from the preceding one in having a gular fold. Dorsal 

 scales also varying: equal, keeled scales or longitudinal series 

 of enlarged keeled scales. 



Brown or pale olive above, with two series of dark spots 

 along the back ; flanks with a brown network ; on the head 

 small brown spots; sometimes a large black spot on each side 

 of the neck. Tail with dark transverse rings. Lower parts yellow. 



Habitat: New Guinea?!. — N. Australia. 



The only indication of this species occurring in the Archi- 

 pelago, is to be found in Boulenger's Catalogue, where New 

 Guinea and Islands is given as doubtful. 



16. Liolepis Cuvier. 



(CuviER, Regne An. 2nd ed. II p. 37, 1829). 



Body depressed, covered with small scales; skin of sides 

 expansible. No crest ; no gular sac ; a strong transverse gular 

 fold. Tympanum distinct. Tail long, round, a little depressed. 

 Femoral pores present. 



Distribution. South-Eastern Asia; Sumatra; Banka. 



A single species. 



I. Liolepis belliana (Gray). 



Uromastix belliafta^ Gray, Zool. Journ. Ill 1827, p. 220. 



Liolepis bellii^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 403 (s. syn.) ; in Annand. & Robins., 

 Fasc. Malay. Zool. I, pi. X, fig. 2. 



Snout short, as long as or a little longer than the diameter 



