2 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Dimensions. 



Head ... ... ... 11 mm. 



Width of head 9 „ 



Body 37 „ 



Fore-limb ... ... 15 ., 



Hind-limb 20 ., 



Tail ... ... ... missing. 



Locality. — Charlotte "Waters. 



DiPLODACTYLUS BYRXEI, sp. nOV. 



Description. — Head short, convex ; snout rounded, a little 

 longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; 

 latter very small, rounded. Body short ; limbs moderate, the 

 fore-limb stretched forward reaches the anterior border of the 

 orbit, the hind-limb to a little behind the axilla. Digits rather 

 long, moderately depressed, inferiorly with transverse rows of 

 discoid scales, usually two. in a row ; apical dilations small, the 

 inferior plates sub-oval. Upper surfaces covered with minute 

 granular scales, intermixed on the back with numerous regularly 

 disposed rounded, or bluntly conical, tubercles. Rostral very 

 low and broad, about four times as broad as high, without 

 median cleft ; nostril pierced in a swelling between the i-ostral, 

 the first labial, and three nasals ; internasal space concave. 

 Eleven upper labials, the first very large and incompletely 

 divided from the rostral ; twelve lower labials, anterior very 

 long, projecting behind the mental. Mental trapezoid, about as 

 Ijroad as long. Scales on the throat minute, granular; abdominal 

 scales flat, I'oundish, juxtaposed, a little smaller than the donsal 

 tubercles. Tail cylindrical, tapering, with rings of scales convex 

 above and flat, subquadrangular beneath. ^lale with tlu*ee or 

 four blunt spines on each side of the base of the tail. Colour. — 

 Brownish-yellow above, with four broad, curved, dark brown 

 Ijands on the body and five large spots on the tail : a dark 

 brown spot behind the base of the hind-limlj ; most of the 

 tubercles on the back dark brown ; head from snout to behind 

 the eyes uniform dull brown ; under surfaces whitish. 



