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a series of angular darker spots along the middle of the back ; 

 sontetinies a lighter band along each side of the latter ; lower 

 surfaces lighter brown, uniform or indistinctly spotted with 

 darker. 



Habits. — Usually met with on the trunks or branches of trees 

 and shrubs. In colour closely resembles the bark. Very 

 common in the sandy districts on the south coast, especially on 

 the Leptospermum scrub. " It is fond of basking in the sun on 

 sandy paths .... In confinement feeds readily on flies." — 

 " The eggs are laid in the sand." — (McCoy). 



Distrihction. — Victoria : Melbourne, Caulfield, Plenty River,. 

 Upper Yarra, Damper Creek, Gippsland, Goulburn River, 

 Stawell (Melb. Mus.); Drysdale, Tallarook, Rutherglen (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia, Tasmania, 

 Sydney (Brit. Mus.). 



Amphibolurus barbatus, Cuvier. 



Grammatophora barbata, Gray, Cat., p. 252. 



Agama barbata, Cuv. R. A. 2nd ed. ii., p. 35 ; Duvern. R. A., 

 Rept., pi. xiv., fig. 1. 



Grammatophora barbata, Kaup. Isis, 18i;7, p. 621 ; Dum. and 

 Bibr. iv., p. 478; Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror Rept., pi. xviii., 

 fig. 1 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 121. 



Amphibolurus barbatus, Wieg. Herp. Mex., p. 7. 



Description. — " Habit stout. Head large, swollen at the sides ; 

 snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit, with angular 

 canthus rostralis ; nostril large, directed backwards, nearly equally 

 distant from the eye and the end of the snout ; tympanum 

 nearly half the diameter of the orbit ; upper head-scales 

 keeled, largest on the snout ; a transverse series of larger 

 scales borders the head posteriorly, forming a right angle 



