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HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES. 



in the total length ; the head is usually broader, but occa- 

 sional New South Wales specimens are found with just as 

 broad heads ; vomerine teeth very strong, always extending 

 well beyond the outer edge of the choanse ; toes short 

 and cyhndrical, usually devoid of fringe ; in far northern 

 examples the spots are disposed in well marked bands 

 and a hght dorsal stripe may be present ; under-surfaces 

 often with blight red suffusions. 



Specimen No. 1 from Cape York (one of the tj'pes). 



Specimen No. 2 from Burnett River. Shows how the length of the hind- 

 limb lengthens as we go south. The other characters, too, show a 

 gradual pasf:ing into the southern variety. 



Type : — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. Reg. 

 No. R.452o. 



Loc. : — Somerset, Cape York, N. Queensland, collected 

 by Messrs. Hedley and McCulloch in 1907. 



Since writing the paper referred to above on the 

 varieties of L. dorsalis, Gray, it has become evident that 

 the characters noted on p. 30 of some Cape York examples 

 are to a great extent constant throughout specimens as 

 far south as the Burnett River in Queensland. The in- 

 clusion of these specimens in var. dumerilii makes that 

 variety so comprehensive that I think it best to separate 

 off this distinct form as a separate variety. The var. 

 terrce-regince then, will stand for all specimens from the 

 area north of the Burnett River, including the district 

 drained by the river itself. At some locality south of the 

 Burnett River and probably north of the Brisbane River, 

 this new variety blends with var. dumerilii, for specimens 

 from Bri?.bane possess the characters of the latter. 



