TJie Lizards indigenous to Victoria. 47 



Distrilnition. — Victoria : Mount Wellington in N. Gippsland, 

 Walhalla, Harrietville in Australian Alps (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Tasmania, Sydney, Port Denison 

 (Brit. Mus.); Mt. Lofty, South Australia. 



Amphibolurus muricatus, White. 



Granwiatophora f/iuricata, Gray, Cat., p. 251. 



Lacerta inuricata, White, Journ. N. S. Wales, App., p. 244, pi. 

 xxxi., fig. 1 ; Shaw, Zool. iii, p. 211, pi. Ixv., tig. 2. 



Agama muricata, Daud, Rept. iii., p. 391. 



Agama jacksoniefisis, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat., p. 113; 

 Guerin, Icon. R. A. Rept., pi. iii. 



Granwiatophora muricata., Kaup, Isis, 1827, p. 261 ; Dum. and 

 Bibr. iv., p. 475 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 111. 



Amphibolurus tnuricatus, Wiegni. Herp. Mex., p. 17 ; Girard, 

 U. S. Expl. Exp. Herp., p. 414. 



Ainphibolurus maculijo-us., Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1857, 

 p. 198, and U. S. Exph Exp. Herp., p. 417. 



Description. — '' Habit moderate. Head rather elongate, snout 

 longer than the diameter of the orbit ; canthus rostralis angular ; 

 nostril equally distant from the eye and the end of the snout ; 

 tympanum measuring nearly half the diameter of the orbit ; 

 upper head scales strongly keeled ; back of head and borders of 

 the tympanum with small spines. Sides of neck strongly plicate ; 

 a more or less distinct dorso-lateral fold frequently disappearing 

 altogether in the adult. Gular scales a little smaller than 

 ventrals, feebly keeled. Body moderately depressed, covered 

 above with very irregular small keeled scales intermixed with 

 some very numerous, enlarged, strongly keeled, spinose scales, 

 some of which form regular series along the back ; a low serrated 

 vertebral ridge or crest ; ventral scales feebly keeled, shortly 

 mucronate. Limbs moderately elongate, the adpressed hind-limb 

 reaching the eye or between the latter and the tympanum ; limbs 

 with strongly keeled scales of unequal size. Femoral pores three 

 or four on each side, not extending beyond the proximal half of 

 the thigh, prseanal pores two on each side. Tail round, twice or 

 more than twice as long as head and body, covered above with 

 strongly keeled scales of unequal size. Colour. — Brown above, with 



