134 



upper caudal scales intermixed with tubercles at the basal part, 

 lower scales larger. Limbs long, the hind limb reaches between 

 the eye and the tip of the snout. 



Dark olive above, with dark and light transverse bands; a 

 broad black band from the eye, through the ear, to above 

 the shoulder. Lower parts pale olive, black-spotted; throat in 

 the young ones with black longitudinal lines. Length of head 

 and body i66 mm.; tail (reproduced) 300 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Arfak Mts!) ^). — Queensland. 



15. Diporophora Gray. 



(Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 53, 183 1). 



Body feebly compressed, sometimes slightly depressed. No 

 gular sac ; a gular fold present or absent. No dorsal crest. 

 Tympanum distinct. Tail round. One or two praeanal pores 

 on each side, sometimes absent in the female; no femoral 

 pores. 



Distribution. Australia; New Guinea. 



Key to the In do- Australian species. 



A. No transverse gular fold 1. D. bilineata p. 134, 



B. A transverse gular fold 1. D. australis p. 135. 



I. Diporophora bilineata Gray. 



Diporopho7-a bilineata^ Gray, Zool. Misc. 1851, p. 54; Zool. Erebus & Terror, 



Kept. pi. XIX, fig. I. 

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



Head moderate, with an angular canthus rostralis; head- 

 scales strongly keeled, equal; nostril in an oval nasal, separated 



from the rostral, somewhat 

 nearer the orbit than the 

 end of the snout; tympa- 

 num distinct, more than half 

 the diameter of the orbit. 

 No transverse gular fold, a 

 feeble, oblique fold in front 



Fig. 59. Diporophora bilineata Gray. ^^ ^^e shoulders, gular scales 



keeled. Body compressed, 

 covered with equal keeled scales, the keels forming longitu- 



i) The only specimen, ever captured in the Indo-Australian Archipelago, is 

 in the Leyden Museum. 



