Lizards from Central Australia. 

 Dimensions. 



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Vai\ ruficaudus^ var. nov. 



Differs from the type as follows : — Body much depressed. 

 Twenty-eight scales round the middle of the body. Nuchals 

 nearly as lai'ge as parietals. Colour. — Upper surfaces greenish- 

 black, with conspicuous longitudinal white band on either side 

 of the back and head, converging in front to meet on the tip of 

 the snout, and behind extending to base of tail. Tail and hind- 

 limbs red. Under surfaces of body bluish-white, of tail reddish. 



