Art. IX. — Descriptions of some New Lizards from 

 Western Australia. 



By a. H. S. LUCAS, M.A., B.Sc, and C. FROST, F.L.S. 



[Read 10th July, 1902.] 



The Lizards described in the following pages formed part of a 

 collection of reptiles sent to the National Museum, Melbourne, 

 for identification by Bernard H. Woodward, Esq., from the Perth 

 Museum, Western Australia. 



Besides the specimens here described, the collection contained 

 38 species, all of which have been previously recorded for 

 Western or Central Australia. 



Dipopophora amphibolupoides, sp. n. 



Description. — Habit moderate; head oval, elongate; snout 

 anterior to nostril as long as diameter of orbit, with angular 

 can thus rostralis; nostril moderate, directed backwards, midway 

 between the orbit and the tip of the snout; tympanum measuring 

 nearly half the diameter of the orbit. Upper head scales obtusely 

 keeled ; all the head scales larger than the dorsal ; a short series of 

 spinose scales above the tympanum, more marked immediately 

 behind it on a well-marked dorso-lateral fold; a distinct nuchal 

 crest of about a dozen compressed spines ; scales on side of neck, 

 and gular scales small, .smooth, tessellated; a distinct gular fold. 

 Body moderately depressed ; a very low dorsal ridge, especially in 

 the anterior half; dorsal scales slightly keeled, as large as the 

 ventral; an irregular longitudinal series of enlarged scales on each 

 side of the vertebral ridge; a regular series of enlarged keeled 

 scales above the dorso-lateral fold; ventral scales smooth, scales on 

 sides smaller, slightly keeled. Limbs short; adpressed hind limb 

 does not reach the axilla. Two praeanal pores on each side; no 

 femoral pores. Tail rounded^ somewhat depressed at the base, 

 gradually tapering, but never filiform, nearly one and a-half times 

 .as long as the head and body; all scales keeled. 



