'86 HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES. 



received from Dr. T. L. Bancroft several specimens of H. 

 lesueurii which resemble the typical form, i.e., that found 

 round Sydney, New South Wales. These were collected 

 at Eidsvold, Burnett River, Queensland. Northern 

 Queensland examples of var. vinosa are larger than anj^ 

 specimens of the typical form that I have seen, and they 

 also possess relativelj^ much larger discs. If with additional 

 material these characters are proved quite stable, it may 

 then be necessary to raise this form to specific rank. At 

 present such a course could not be substantiated. 



Mr. Lamb does not appear to have realised in his 

 original description, the full significance of certain features 

 of taxonomic value, and, as a consequence, my description 

 will be found to differ considerably from that given by him, 

 and at the same time, to be directly opposed in a number 

 of salient points. 



Type : — In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 



ii. DESCRIPTION AND NOTES ON THREE 

 LIZARDS. 



1. CEdura monilis, de Vis. 



(PI. Ill, fig. 2.) 



(Edura monilis, de Vis., Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. (2), 

 ii, 1888, p. 812. 



Head oviform, depressed (in the figured specimen 

 the occipital region is convex and rather swollen). Snout 

 as long as the distance between the eye and the ear opening, 

 once-and-two-thirds to almost twice as long as the orbital 

 diameter. Ear opening very small, one-third to almost 

 half the diameter of the eye, sub-oval, very oblique. 

 Rostral rectangular, the outer angles rounded by the nasal 

 opening, half or a little less as high as broad, with a distinct 

 median cleft above dividing it for barely half its height. 

 Supranasals in contact ; nostrils bordered by the rostral, 

 first upper labial, a supranasal, and three post-nasal 

 granules ; behind these the granular scales of the snout 



9-10 

 are not visibly enlarged. Labials . Head covered. 



with hexagonal, sub-equal granules, smallest on the nape. 



