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nostril pierced between tlie rostral, the tirst labial and five or 

 six nasals, the anterior or upper largest and generally in contact 

 with its fellow, the others granular ; ten or eleven upper and as 

 many lower labials ; mental trapezoid, a little larger than the 

 adjacent labials; no chin-shields. "Abdominal scales granular, 

 scarcely larger than those on the upper surfaces. Tail short, 

 swollen, root-shaped, with rings of uniform small squarish scales. 

 Male with a small group of conical tubercles on each side the base 

 of the tail. Colour. — Brown above ; a light dark-edged festooned 

 vertebral band, bifurcating on the nape, sometimes broken up 

 into angular spots ; sides and limbs with light spots ; lower 

 surfaces dirty-white. 



Total length ... ... 88 mm. 



Head 15 



Width of head 12 



Body 40 



Fore-limb 19 



Hind-limb 24 



Tail 33 „ "— Boulenirer. 



Habits. — This lizard is usually met with under thin Hat stones 

 near the tops of mountains. 



Distribution. — -Victoria : Bendigo, Upper JMurray, Dimboola 

 (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia, Champion Bay, 

 Houtman's Abrolhos, Sydney (Brit. Mus.) ; Deniliquin, New 

 South AVales (Melb. Mus.). 



DiPLODACTYLUS TESSELLATUS, Giinther. 



Stenodactylopsis tessellatus, Giinth., Zool. Erebus and Terror, 

 p. 16. 



Description. — " Head lai-ge, oviform, very convex ; snout 

 rounded, as long as the diameter of the orbit or the distance 

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

 short ; limbs long, slender. Digits rather long, slender, feebly 

 depressed, not dilated at the end, inferiorly with small granules ; 

 apical plates small, oval. Head with small granular scales ; 

 rostral four-sided, emarginate a'bove, more than twice as broad as 



