Art. I. — Furtlicr Prehimnaiy Notice of Certam N^w--^ 

 Species of Lizards from Central Australia. 



By A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, and C. Frost, F.L.S. 



[Read 9tli May, 1895.] 



The following contains a description of three New Species of 

 Lizards collected in Central Australia by Professor Baldwin 

 Spencer. The full descriptions accompanied by figures, together 

 with a complete report, will be published in the volume dealing 

 with the work of the Horn Expedition. 



Ceramodactylus dam^us, sp. nov. 



Description. — Head large, high ; snout obtusely pointed, a 

 little longer than the distance between the orbit and the ear- 

 opening. Ear-opening narrow, elliptical, oblique. Body slightly 

 depressed. Limbs moderate, the fore-limb stretched forward reaches 

 to between the eye and the nostril. Digits long, slender, inferiorly 

 with small, imbricate, pointed scales. Head and upper surfaces 

 of body, and limbs, covered with small granular scales. Rostral 

 quadrangular, twice as broad as high, with median cleft above. 

 Nostril pierced l^etween the rostral, first labial, and four nasals, 

 the supero-anterior nasals lai'ge, forming a suture with one 

 another behind the rostral. Eleven or twelve upper and as 

 many lower labials. Mental rather large, trapezoid ; no chin 

 shields. Gular scales very small, granular. Abdominal scales 

 flat, subimbricate. Male with two or three blunt spines on each 

 side of the base of the tail, and two widely separated prasanal 

 pores. Tail missing. Colour. — Pale whitish-grey above, darkest 

 on the sides ; a brownish, more or less broken band from the 

 snout along each side of the back to tail ; a broad, median 

 whitish band from neck to base of tail ; head spotted or 

 reticulated with dark brown ; sides with two longitudinal series 

 of roundish white spots ; limbs and under surfaces uniform 

 whitish. 



