10 RECORDS OP THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



specimens collected by Messrs. Cairn and Grant being specifically 

 inseparable from the southern Leaf -tailed Gecko. 



Five out of the six specimens available for examination had 

 reproduced tails, that of the remaining example being as described 

 above; whether this lepidosis is normal or abnormal is, under the 

 circumstances, rather a difficult question to decide, but the fact 

 that I have before me an example of Gymnodactylus platurus 

 which though fully adult and with a longer and more attenuated 

 tail than prevails in the ordinary run of specimens, has this ver- 

 tebral patch as fully developed as in the specimen described ; it 

 seems, therefore, probable that this locally unarmed patch may or 

 may not be present in individuals of the same species, since other 

 undoubted specimens of G. platurus show little or no sign of it. 



3. DiPLODACTYLUS INTEEMEDIUS, Sp. nOV. 



Head oviform, convex ; snout rounded, much longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, from once and three- 

 fourths to twice the diameter of the orbit; eye large ; ear-opening 

 of moderate size, round Body and limbs rather strong. Digits 

 depressed, with large transverse lamellae inferiorly, seven or eight 

 under the fourth toe, the two or three anterior subcordiform, the 

 middle two transversely oblong, and the basal ones divided into 

 two subcircular plates ; the plates under the apex of the digits 

 large, together cordiform. Upper surfaces coverd with moderate- 

 sized, juxtaposed, round or oval granules, distinctly smaller on 

 the nuchal region intermixed on the back with large conical 

 tubercles, forming two regular longitudinal series, which extend 

 a short distance along the tail. Rostral subquadrangular, com- 

 pletely divided mesially ; nostril pierced between the rosti'al, 

 first labial, and three nasals, the anterior of which is much the 

 larger, and is separated from its fellow by a transverse oval 

 granule, which is rarely split in two ; eleven to thirteen upper 

 and ten to twelve lower labials ; mental small, triangular or 

 trapezoidal, not or but little larger than the adjacent labials ; 

 no regular chin-shislds. Lower surfaces covered with small 

 juxtaposed granules largest on the chin, smallest on the throat. 

 Males with a curved series of preanal pores, five or six on each 

 side, interrupted in the middle, and with from two to four large 

 granules on each side of the base of the tail. Tail short, sub- 

 cylindrical, covered with small granules ; seventeen more or 

 less regular transverse bands of strong tubercles, the anterior 

 band connecting the terminal points of the dorsal and basi-caudal 

 longitudinal series. 



Colors. — -Upper surfaces bluish-gray, with irregular lines and 

 patches of black scales ; all the tubercles yellow ; lower surfaces 

 gray, closely dotted with black or brown, each dot representing a 

 cranule. 



