46 Dr. A. Giintlier on Australian Reptiles and Fishes. 



distance of the car from the snout; toes verj^ unequal in length. 

 Nasals slightly in contact behind the rostral ; central occipital 

 not much larger than a preoccipital. Eyelid with a transparent 

 disk ; ear-opening very small. Body surrounded by twenty-two 

 series of scales ; sixty-seven scales in a series between the axils 

 of the fore and hind limbs. Two large prseanal scales. A deep- 

 black band, two scales broad, runs from behind the eye along 

 each side to the root of the tail. 



South Australia. 5i inches long (Krefft, 47). 



6. Lygosoma australis (Gray). 

 Swan River, Cape York. 



7. Delma Fraseri (Gray). 

 Champion Bay and Nicol Bay. 



8. Lialis Burtonii (Gray) . 



Scales in seventeen rows. Swan River, Houtman's Abrolhos. 

 Var. with the ornamental colours very pale ; chin not dark- 

 coloured. Champion Bay. 



9. Lialis j)unctulat a (Gray). 



Scales in nineteen rows. Sydney, Port Essington. 



Var. hicatenata. Port Essington. 



Yar. uniformly coloured. Sydney, Cape Yoik. 



10. Rhodona punctata (Gray). 

 Swan River. 



11. Rhodona Gerrardii, sp. n. 

 Rhodona punctata, var. Gerrardii, Gra)'. 



Nasals slightly in contact with each other; upper labials 

 six ; frontal triangular, thrice as large as the central occipital. 

 Body surrounded by twenty-one longitudinal series of scales; 

 seventy-one scales in a longit. series between the axils of the 

 fore and hind limbs. Two large prseanal scales. Ear-opening 

 small, covered by scales. Fore limb very small, single-toed on 

 one side, and with two toes on the other. Two toes behind, the 

 outer more than twice as long as the inner. Body with three 

 black longit. bands, one along the middle, and one on each side 

 of the back. 



Swan River, Champion Bay. 5 inches long. 



The fore limb of Rhodona punctata is about as large as a scale, 

 that of Rhodona Gerrardii equals the length of six scales ; Rh. 

 punctata has only one large central occipital, Rh. Gerrardii one 

 central and a pair of prteoccipitals. The eyelid has a transparent 

 disk in the middle. 



