bb ON SOME REPTILIA FROM THE HERBERT RIVER, QUEENSLAND, 



Tetradactylus guttulatus. n. sp. 



Entii-ely of a nitid bronzy brown paler on the belly, every scale 

 with one or more very minute black spots, a few palish marks on 

 and about the labial shield. The nasal shields are widely separated 

 by the frontal, behind the frontal lies the vertical, which is in form 

 of a triangle with rounded apex, behind it there are two pentagons! 

 occipital shields and behind these are three others larger, the middle 

 one triangular and enclosed between the two lateral shields. There 

 is a deep longitudinal impression from the mouth to the eye along 

 the summit of the first three labial shields. The ear orifice is round 

 and open. The legs are weak and distant as in the genus, and the 

 tail is very elongate. Length, 6 inches. 



One specimen only. 



Order. OPHIDIA. 



Family. BoiD^. 



Nardoa crassa. n. sp. 



Scales in 42 rows 



Abdominal Plates 280 



Anal Plate undivided 



Sub-caudal Plates 52/52 



Total length 6S inches 



Tail 7 inches 



Head 2 inches 



Girth of body 7 inches. 



The body of this snake is thick and cylindrical, the tail shoi't, 

 chick and tapering to a blunt point ; the head is narrow and 

 elongate for the family. The rostral shield is broad and low ; the 

 anterior f rontals are oblong ; the posterior frontals are very long, 

 (in Nardoa Gilherti there are two pair), the vertical is nearly as 

 broad as long and polygonal ; the first upper labial shield, and the 

 four posterior lower labials are pitted. The eye is rather small and 

 comes in contact with the sixth and seventh upper labial shields. 

 The upper surface of the head and body and the tail is of a 

 brownish black, the side scales becoming paler towards the belly, 



