New Species of Lizards front Central Australia. 55 

 Dimensions. 



Locality. — Charlotte Waters. 



Diplodactylus conspici/Iatus, sp. nov. 



Head short, high, convex; snout pointed, deep, longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening; canthus rostralis 

 sharply defined; diameter of orbit two-thirds the length of the 

 snout; ear-opening small, rounded. Body moderate ; limbs slender, 

 meeting or slightly overlapping when adpressed. Digits not much 

 depressed, with small rounded tubercles below ; the apex not 

 dilated, with two small oval plates inferiorly, all clawed. Upper 

 surfaces covered with small granular scales, largest and flattest on 

 the middle of the back. Rostral large, hexagonal, not twice as 

 broad as high, with trace of median cleft above; nostril pierced 

 between seven or eight nasals, the superior and the anterior 

 swollen, the latter largest and transversely dilated, the posterior 

 small, granular; a polygonal plate between the nasals behind the 

 rostral; one anterior upper labial distinct, but all the other scales 

 bordering the gape above and below are quite indistinguishable from 

 the surrounding small granules or scales; mental large, nearly as 

 large as the rostral, produced and rounded behind ; no distinct 

 lower labials or chin-shields; abdominal scales very small, not so 

 large as mid-dorsal. Tail short, suboval, discoid, convex above, 

 flat beneath, with rings of small muriform scales, most regular 

 and convex and largest above, flat and imbricate below. No pores. 

 Males with cluster of about eight small conical scales on each side 

 of base of tail. Pinkish-grey above, with irregular, more or less 

 transverse, brownish-black reticulations, a whitish streak along 

 the canthus rostralis ; sides and upper surfaces of limbs dotted 

 with creamy-pink ; under surfaces whitish, immaculate. 



