Notes on some Reptiles from the Herbert River, Queensland. 

 By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 

 I received a few days ago from Mr. Archibald Boyd of Ripple 

 Creek, Herbert River, an earthenware jar containing specimens in 

 spirits of several species of bats, muridse, antechini, lizards and 

 snakes. A very cursory glance at the contents of the jar satisfied 

 me that Mr. Boyd had hit upon a new and untried and also a very 

 prolific field for the Zoologist. The mammals I have not yet 

 examined in detail, but I believe that most of them are of 

 undescribed species. Of the reptiles, I herewith give a list. Of 

 Lizards there were three species. 



1. Odatria ocellata. 



A species of wide distribution in tropical Queensland. 



2. Liasis punctulata. 

 Found everywhere throughout Australia. 



3. Tiaris Boydii. n. sp. 

 Of a reddish brown colour, with seven or eight narrow dark- 

 brown fasciaB on the body, and similar but indistinct fasciae on the 

 tail and feet ; the front of the head and nape is greyish, the sides 

 of the head stone blue, the gular pouch and the space between the 

 tympanum of the eye yellow, and the under side of the body 

 greyish-yellow. The front of the head is triangular and 

 shelving, a little concave except above the orbits, and covered 

 with minute roughly keeled scales ; sides of the head 

 covered with small non-imbricate scales or tubercles, very small on 

 the eyelids, and largest below the mouth, and behind the ear 

 expanding into a few ivory looking tubercles of larger size. The 

 gular pouch is covered with very minute pointed scales, with 

 broad, pointed, compressed, triangular teeth along its median fold. 

 On the nape, there is a large compressed skinny crest, densely 

 covered with very small smooth scales, and armed with three or 

 four erect, broad, pointed, triangular, very compressed bony teeth. 

 The scales of the back and sides of the body are small and more or 

 less keeled, and the ridge of the back is armed from the nape to 



