282 NEW SPECIES OF ABELPHARUS FROM VICTOUIA, 



Dimensions : — 



Total length 



79 mm. 



Head 5 „ 



Width of head... 3-5 „ 



Body 39 „ 



Fore limb ... 4-5 ,, 



Hind limb ... 9-5 ,, 



Tail (reproduced) 35 ,, 



Locality. — Mildura, Victoria. Two specimens obtained by 

 favour of Rev. Walter Fielder. 



Remarks. — This species is allied to A. greyi, Grra}'-, by the head- 

 scaling, but in habit resembles A. lineatus, Bell, and A. vut,"Meri, 

 Fischer. It diflfers from A. lineatus in head-scaling, in number of 

 digits, and in the number of longitudinal series of body scales; 

 and from A. muelleri in the head-scaling. The genus Ablepharus 

 is characterised by its snake-like absence of movable eyelids; 

 and the three species, A. inuelleri, A. lineatus, and A. rhodonoides, 

 show a further approach to the snake type in the reduction in 

 size of the limbs and in the number of the digits. 



It is convenient here to add remarks on two other lizards. 



(1) Ablepharus greyi, (3(Ya,y. 



Within the year, Mr. H. J. McCooey obtained specimens of an 

 Abh^.pharus in the Boggabri District, which he subsequently 

 described in a country paper. He has been good enough to 

 forward examples to us. They do not differ in any particular 

 from A. greyi, Gray, which was first described from W. Australia, 

 and was obtained by the Horn Expedition from the Centre. 

 The species is thus one of those which is characteristically 

 found in the interior regions of scanty rainfall. 



(2) f/emisphferiodon tasnianicuin, L. & F. 



After carefully examining a larger series of I/omolepida 

 caxvarljice, D. & B., from New South Wales, and a series of 

 examples kindly forwai'ded to us by Mr. A. Morton of the Hobart 



