56 ON A LIZARD AND THREE SPECIES OF SALARIAS, 
ON A LIZARD AND THREE SPECIES OF 
SALARIAS, Xe. 
BY 
CW: ‘DE Vis, Meas 
THE QUEENSLAND Museum has been frequently indebted to two 
zealous friends, Mr. F, A. Blackman and Mr. D. Macpherson, for 
apparently new forms of vertebrates—more especially those 
which belong to tribes which are but too liable to be overlooked 
by observers to whom size or utility are the chief attractions. 
Mr. Blackman keepsa watchful eye upon, amongst other things, 
the smaller lizards, and we have no reason to fear that his 
pursuit of them will cease for lack of interesting objects. That 
particular lizard for example which he now enables us to study 
is an addition to the number of lines connecting the Scines with 
the Pygopide. The latter are one of the peculiarities of the 
Australian fauna, and it is in that fauna rather than any other 
that we may expect to find whatever intermediate forms may 
be extant, and several are already known, between the com- 
paratively stout and strong-limbed Hinulias and the nearly 
limbless and snake-like Pygopus or Lialis. Every link of this 
kind is of great morphological interest: and, theoretically con- 
sidered, adds another to the difficulties of special creation. 
The lizard before us, collected by Mr. Blackman at Breakfast 
Creek, near Brisbane, fails to effect an entrance into any one of | 
the genera known to the writer. Itis excluded from Lygosoma 
and its nearer allies by the absence of a visible ear; by virtue- 
of its full complement of toes, together with its scaly lower 
eyelid, it stands apart from Cheilomeles; and even from its 
nearest affine the Javan genus, Podophys, it is differentiated by 
