8 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



brown ; tail above dark brown, the expanded portion with two 

 broad light colored cross-bands ; the anterior near its commence- 

 ment, the posterior marking its termination ; below dark brown 

 densely spotted with yellow ; the attenuated portion with two 

 annular yellow rings. 



Dimensions. 

 Total length 

 Length of head ... 

 Width of head ... 

 Length of body ... 

 Length of fore limb 

 Length of hind limb 

 Length of tail 



Habitat. — Interior of New South Wales (Tumut?). 



Tyye. — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



The unique example described above forms one of a small col- 

 lection lately forwarded to the Museum. The bottle which con- 

 tained it is labelled " Tumut," but as the remaining bottles are 

 unlabelled, and no information as to the sender is procurable, 

 some doubt as to the true locality necessarily remains. 



This species differs greatly from the other broad-tailed forms 

 of Gymnodactylus, but is more closely allied to G. miliusii, than 

 to platui'us or cornntus. 



2. Gymnodactylus cornutus, sp. nov. 



Head large, the snout depressed, the occiput raised above the 

 level of the eye and forming with the snout a moderately convex 

 surface the apical point of which is on a line with the posterior 

 margin of the orbit ; the length of the snout is one and three- 

 fourths of the diameter of the eye ; the distance between the eye 

 and the nostril is greater than that between the eye and the ear- 

 opening. Forehead and loreal region slightly concave ; supra- 

 ciliary region so much enlarged and elevated as to leave only a 

 deep narrow fossa between the orbits. Ear-opening elongate- 

 pyriform, vertical, five-eighths of the diameter of the eye. Body 

 moderately elongate and attenuated, more than three and a half 

 times the length of the head. Limbs long ; digits strong, sub- 

 cylindrical at the base, the distal portion strongly compressed and 

 elevated ; claws very strong. Head covered with small granules 

 intermixed with conical or rounded tubercles ; granules of the 

 upper eyelid rather larger than those of the head, the tubercles 

 numerous and rounded ; a strong spinate knob, surmounted by a 

 conical tubercle behind the eye ; ear-opening protected in front 

 and above by a tuberculated ridge ; rostral subquadrangular, 

 three times as broad as high, almost completely divided by a 

 shallow median groove ; nostril directed posteriorly, in contact 



