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the eye and the end of the snout ; tympanum scarcely half the 

 diameter of the orbit ; upper head-scales strongly keeled ; small 

 spinose tubercles on the back of the head ; sides of neck strongly 

 plicate ; a more or less distinct dorso-lateral fold. Gular scales 

 smaller than ventrals, keeled. Body much depressed, covered 

 with irregular strongly keeled scales, largest on the vertebral 

 region, intermixed with enlarged trihedral spinose scales forming 

 very irregular longitudinal series ; a more or less regular 

 vertebral series of enlarged scales ; ventral scales keeled. Limbs 

 short, the adpressed hind-limb reaching the shoulder or the neck 

 in females, the tympanum or a little beyond in males ; scales on 

 upper surface of limbs unequal, strongly keeled. A series of 

 twenty to thirty pores extending on more than the proximal half 

 of the thighs, continuous or interrupted on the pr?eanal region. 

 Tail round, depressed at the base, not once and two-thirds the 

 length of head and body ; scales strongly keeled at the base with 

 four or five longitudinal series of enlarged ones, the outer series, on 

 the side, composed of large trihedral tubercles. Colour. — Pale olive- 

 grey above, with a regular series of angular dark-brown, white- 

 edged spots on each side of the vertebral region, and another 

 more or less regular along each side ; head with symmetrical 

 dark markings ; limbs with irregular dark cross bars ; tail with 

 two series of dark spots ; lower parts white, the throat marbled 

 with black in the male, less distinctly with grey in the female ; 

 in the male an elongate black spot on the chest and blackish 

 variegations on the chest and belly. 



Total length ... ... 126 mm. 



Head 13 „ 



Width of head 11 „ 



Body 35 „ 



Fore-limb 21 „ 



Hind-limb 33 „ 



Tail 78 „ "— Boulenger. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Dimboola (L. and F.). 

 Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia (Swan River) ; 

 var. tasmanensis^ from Tasmania (Brit. Mus.). 



