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shields ; gular granules minute. Body and limbs covered abo^•e 

 with small granules intermixed with small round conical 

 tubercles ; belly covered with flat granules. Tail short, thick, 

 swollen, and nearly as broad as the body in its anterior half, 

 depressed, tapering to a fine point posteriorly ; it is covered with 

 small granules, and, on the upper surface, small conical tubercles 

 arranged in transverse series. Colour. — Chestnut-brown above, 

 with white cross bands on the back and tail; head and limljs 

 white-spotted ; lower surfaces white. 



" — Boulenger. 



Distribution. — -Victoria : Bendigo, Kangaroo Flat, Castle- 

 maine. Mount Tallangower (Melb. Museum) ; Maryborough, 

 Dimboola, Baringhup (L. and. F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia (Melb. Mus.) ; 

 Sydney, Champion Bay, N.W. Australia (Brit. Mus.). 



Phyllodactvlus, Gray. 



Digits more or less slender, free, all clawed, with transverse 

 lamella? or tubercles inferiorly ; the extremity more or less 

 dilated, with two large plates inferiorly, separated by a longi- 

 tudinal groove in which the claw is retractile ; the distal expansion 

 covered above with scales sti'ongly differentiated from those on 

 the basal portion of the digit. 



Upper surfaces covered with juxtaposed scales, uniform or 

 intermixed with larger tubercles ; abdominal scales generally 

 imbricate. 



Pupil vertical. 



Males with neither praeanal nor femoral pores. 



The genus extends over Australia ; Africa ; islands of the 

 Mediterranean ; Tropical America. 



