Lizards from Central Australia. 



Locality. 



DiPOROPHORA AVINNECKEI, sp. nOV. 



Description. — Habit slender; head rather narrow, with distinct 

 canthus rostralis ; covered above with sub-equal keeled scales ; 

 nostril equally distant from eye and the tip of the snout ; 

 tympanum moderate. A slight transverse gular fold. Dorsal 

 scales large, uniform, feebly keeled, the keels directed obliquely 

 towards the middle of the back ; gular scales smooth ; ventral 

 scales feebly keeled, a little larger than those on the middle of 

 the back ; lateral scales smallest, latero-ventral largest. Limbs 

 and digits rather long, the adpressed hind-limb reaches the 

 tympanum in the male, and the shoulder in the female. No 

 pores in our specimens. 



Colour.- — Reddish above, with darker and lighter spots ; a 

 broad bluish vertebral baud, divided on the tail by a narrow line 

 of ground colour ; a narrow white band on each side from behind 

 the eye to the base of the tail, and sometimes a broader one from 

 axilla to groin. Under surfaces whitish with two broad dark- 

 edged, bright yellow bands, united on the chest, and again in 

 front of the hind-limbs, a band of the same colour along the front 

 of the hind-limb from its base to the knee. Tail with a series of 

 broad dark spots or annuli. 



Dimensions. — Male. 



Total length ... ... 215 nun. 



Head 14 „ 



Width of head 9 ,, 



i5«xly 42 „ 



Fore-limb ... ... 24 ,, 



Hind-limb ... ... 38 ,, 



Tail 159 „ 



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