TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 29 



Habits. — Usually met with under logs and flat stones. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Heathcote, Goulburn Valley, Murray 

 District, Pyramid Hill, Gunbower, Murchison, Echuca, Western 

 District (Melb. Mus.) ; Castlemaine, Mai-yborough, Dimbuola, 

 Grampians (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia, Houtman's 

 Abrolhos, Kangaroo Island (Brit. Mus.). 



DiPLODACTYLUS, Gray. 



Digits free, not dilated at the base, slightly at the apex, all 

 clawed, the claw retractile between two plates under the 

 extremity of the digits ; the basal portion of the digits inferiorly 

 with transverse lamellte or tubercles ; the upper surface of the 

 digits covered with uniform small tubercular scales. 



Upper surfaces covered with juxtaposed scales, uniform or 

 intermixed with larger tubercles; abdominal scales juxtaposed. 



Pupil vertical. 



Males with or without pi'seanal pores, without femoi'al pores. 



The genus extends over the whole of Australia, but is not met 

 with outside of tlie Continent. 



DiPLODACTYLUS STROPHURUS, Dum. and Bibr. 



Phyllodactyhis strophurus, Dum. and Bibr., iii., p. 397, pi 

 xxxii., fig. 1. 



Discodactylus ( Strophiirus ) dunierilii, Fitz. Syst. Rept., p. 96. 



Description. — Head oviform, convex ; snout rounded, rather 

 longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, 

 longer than the diameter of the orbit; eye large; ear-opening small, 

 roundish. Body and limbs moderate. Digits much depressed, with 

 large transverse lamellfe inferiorly, about seven under the fourth toe, 

 the middle ones chevron-shaped, the distal one heart-shaped, the 

 basal ones divided into two rounded plates ; the plates under the 

 apex of the digit large, together cordiform. Upper surfaces 

 covered with minute granules, with two somewhat irregular 

 longitudinal series of large very obtusely conical tubercles along 

 the back and tail. Rostral pentagonal, completely divided 

 medially ; nostril pierced between the rostral, tlie first labial and 



