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Range outside Victoria : New South Wales, Queensland, West 

 and North West Australia. 



Tympanoceyptis, Peters. 



Tympanum hidden. Body depressed, covered above with hetero- 

 geneous scales. No dorsal crest. No gular sac ; a strong 

 transverse gular fold. Tail round. A prseanal pore on each 

 side, sometimes absent in the female ; no femoral pores. 



Australia. 



Tympanocryptis lineata, Peters. 



Tympanocryptis lineata, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 186.3, p. 230; 

 McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 181. 



Description. — " Habit very stout. Head short ; nostril nearer 

 to the eye than the tip of the snout; upper head-scales moderately 

 large, very strongly keeled, with slightly enlarged ones on the 

 occiput. Dorsal scales very strongly keeled, the enlarged ones 

 nail-shaped, raised, not or scarcely mucronate ; gular and ventral 

 scales indistinctly keeled. The adpressed hind-limb reaches the 

 shoulder or the neck. Tail rather slender, covered with very 

 strongly keeled scales, not more than once and a half the length 

 of head and body. Colour. — Brownish above, with regular darker 

 transverse spots, and five interrupted longitudinal light lines, 

 three on the back and one on each side ; limbs and tail with dark 

 bars. 



Total length 122 mm. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head 14 „ 



Body 43 „ 



Fore-limb... ... ... 23 ,, 



Hind-limb 33 „ 



Tail ... ... ... 64 ,, " — Boulenger. 



Habits. — " Inhabiting stony plains and retreating into small 

 holes, like those of the ' Trap-door Spider,' in the ground when 

 alarmed." (McCoy, I.e.) Often met with under loose basalt 

 boulders. 



Distribution. — Victoria : Salt-water River, Maryborough, 

 Rutherglen (F. and L.); Sunbury (McCoy). 



Range outside Victoria. — South Australia : Kangaroo I. 

 (Brit. Mus.) 



