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rows of scales. Colour. — Coppery-grey above, uniform or with 

 three or five longitudinal series of blackish dots or elongate 

 quadrangular spots ; lower surfaces more or less marbled or 

 pulverated with grey. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Kewell in Western District, Gipps- 

 land (Melb. Mus.); common in northern part of the colony 

 (McCoy) ; Murray District (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — New South Wales, North and North- 

 West Australia, Tasmania. 



Delma, Gray. 



Parietal bones distinct. Tongue slightly nicked at the tip, 

 with rows of large round papillse inferiorly. Ear exposed. 

 Rudiments of hind-limbs externally. Head with large symmet- 

 rical plates. Scales smooth, cycloid hexagonal, imbricate, the 

 two median series on the belly and the median series under the 

 tail transversely enlarged, hexagonal. No prfeanal pores. 



Both species of the genus ai'e confined to Australia. 



Delma fraseri. Gray. 



Delma fraseri., Gray, Cat., p. 68, 



Delma fraseri., Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 14, and in Grey's Travels 

 Austral, ii., p. 427, pi. iv., fig. 3 ; Giinth. Ann. and Mag. N. H. 

 (4) xii., 1873, p. 145 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 153. 



Del/na grayii. Smith, III. S. Afr. Rept., pi. Ixxvi., fig. 2. 



Delma molleri, Liitken, Vidensk. Meddel., 1862, p. 296, pi. i., 

 fig. 2. 



Nisara grayii, Gray, Liz. Austr., p. 3. 



Description. — "Snout not prominent, as long as the distance 

 between the orbit and the ear-opening ; canthus rostralis obtuse ; 



