80 Proceednigs of tJic Royal Society of Victoria. 



three or four nasals ; thirteen or fourteen upper Uxbials, about 

 the same number of lower labials ; mental small, trapezoid, 

 scarcely larger than the adjacent labials ; no chin-shields. Lower 

 surfaces covered with small juxtaposed granules. Males with a 

 doubly arched series of eleven to fourteen pra-anal pores, and 

 three or four large conical tubercles at the base of the tail. Tail 

 short, subcylindrical, prehensile, covered with small granules ; on 

 each side of its upper surface the series of tubercles above- 

 mentioned. Colour. — Upper surfaces olive-grey, speckled or 

 pencilled with black; tubercles brown ; head with dark undulations 

 of which two are longitudinal on each side of the snout, one 

 passing thi'ough the eye, the other meeting its fellow above on 

 the snout. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Kewell, near Dimbooia, Murray 

 District (Melb. Mus.) ; Lake Albacutya (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — New South Wales, Sydney (Brit. 

 Mus.). 



DiPLODACTYLUS viTTATUS, Gray. 



Diplodactylus viitatus, Gray, Cat., p. 148. 



Diplodactylus ornatus, Gray, Cat., p. 149. 



Diplodactylus vittatus, Gray, P.Z.S., 1832, p. 40 and Zool. 

 Erebus and Terror, pi. xvi., lig. 3, 



Phyllodactylus vittatus^ Dum. and Bibr. iii., p. 400. 



Diplodactylus furcosus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1863, p. 229. 



Diplodactylus ornatus. Gray, Zool. Erelnis and Terror, pi. xvi., 

 tig. 2. 



Description. — "Head short, very convex; snout rounded- 

 acuminate, measuring the diameter of the orbit or the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening ; latter rather small, round. 

 Body short ; limbs moderate. Digits short, depressed, with small 

 apical dilatation, inferiorly with a series of transversely oval 

 tubercles, some of them breaking up into two rounded tubercles ; 

 the extremity of the digit is raised and bears inferiorly 

 two roundish plates separated from the large tubercles of the 

 basal part by three or four rows of small granules. Upper 

 surfaces covered with uniform small granular scales. Rostral 

 four-sided, twice as broad as high, with median cleft abo^e ; 



