BY DENE B. FRY. 87 



Mental shield slightly broader than the adjoining sub- 

 labials, truncate, and tapering posteriorly. Scales of 

 body flattened and mostly hexa.gonal, those of the middle 

 of the back larger than those of the sides, but if anything, 

 slightly smaller than those of the ventral surface. 

 Limbs moderate. Tail rounded, tapering, covered 

 by rings of quadrangular, brick-like scales. (The tail of 

 the figured specimen is reproduced.) An enlarged, flattened 

 granule laterally on the base of the tail. Seven to nine 

 preanal and femoral pores in a series scarcely interrupted 

 medially. 



Colour {spirits) : — Light yellowish (faded) or greyish- 

 brown above, with seven or eight pairs of ocelli (the fellows 

 of each pair sometimes contiguous) of dark purplish-brown. 

 The most anterior of these in the form of a half-moon-shaped 

 nuchal mark. A dark line from the nostril to the occiput ; 

 another short one medially on the snout. Upper-labials 

 yellowish. Upper surfaces of head and body covered 

 (except for the ocelli) by delicate purplish reticulations 

 or spots. Tail when intact, with three or four ocelli, but 

 when reproduced it is irregularly streaked and spotted 

 with purplish. Under- surfaces uniform j^ellowish. 



Measurements of figured e.xaniple : — 



Length of body, snout to anus .. .." 78mm. 



Length of tail . . . . . . . . 42 mm. 



Length of head . . . . . . . . 22 mm. 



Width of head .. .. .. .. 14 mm. 



Length of fore-limb . . . . . . 22 mm. 



Length of hind-limb . . . . . . 28 mm. 



Localities : — There are four specimens of this gecko 

 in the Museum collection. One was collected by Mr. D. A. 

 Porter at Tamworth, Northern Tableland, New South 

 Wales ; another was presented to the Trustees by Dr. 

 S. J. Johnston, B.A., and was taken at Trangie, Western 

 New South Wales. Two other very old, poorly conditioned 

 examples are without data. 



It is best not to regard this species as a local variety of 

 its better known ally, CEdura tryoni. The colouration is 

 characteristic and constant, while several other minor 

 characters distinguish the two. Also, Mr. Porter has for- 

 warded a specimen of a typical CEdura tryoni from Tam- 

 worth, a locality from which (E. monilis is knoAvn. 



