TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 45 



Amphibolurus pictus, Peters. 



Amphibolurus ornatus (non Gray) Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 

 1863, p. 230. 



piclus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1866, p. 88. 



Gramniatophora picta, Giinth.,Zool. Ereb. and Terr. Rept.,p. 18. 



Description. — " Habit stout. Head very short, snout shorter 

 than the diameter of the orbit ; nostril equally distant from the 

 eye and the tip of the snout ; tympanum large, nearly two-thirds 

 the diameter of the orbit; upper head-scales subequal, tubercular, 

 smallest on the supraorbital region ; a series of enlarged scales 

 from the nostril to above the tympanum, passing below the eye. 

 Sides of neck strongly plicate ; no dorso-lateral fold. Gular 

 scales smaller than ventrals, smooth. Body much depressed, 

 covered with very small uniform feebly keeled scales smallest on 

 the sides ; a slight ridge along the middle of the back ; ventral 

 scales smooth. Limbs and digits rather short, the adpressed 

 hind-limb reaching the tympanum or between the latter and the 

 orbit ; scales on upper surface of limbs small, equal, keeled. A 

 series of thirty-two to forty-five pores extending along the whole 

 length of the thighs, continuous or interrupted on the prajanal 

 region. Tail round, a little depressed at the base, not twice as 

 long as head and body, covered with equal, feebly keeled scales. 

 Colour. — Grey-brown above, with small darker and lighter spots ; 

 a series of transverse black spots on the back separated or 

 connected by a black vertebral line ; throat and chest mottled 

 with blackish." — Boulenger. 



Habits. — A single female specimen of this lizard was obtained 

 by Mr. F. M. Reader, of Dimboola. On dissection, the oviduct 

 was found to contain three eggs, in none of which was there any 

 trace of an embryo. 



Distridution. — Victoria : Dimboola. 



Range outside Victoria. — South and West Australia. 



