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body being surrounded by twenty-six series (in H. decresiensis 

 by eighteen or twenty). Also the toes are more developed, the 

 anterior as well as the posterior being conspicuously longer than 

 the eye. Posterior frontals well developed. Seventy-two scales 

 in a series between the axils of the fore and hind limbs. 

 South Australia. 4 inches long (KrefFt, 48). 



26. Chelomeles quadrilineatus (D. & B.). 

 Houtman's Abrolhos, Swan River. 



27. Soridia miopus, sp. n. 



Form of the head and arrangement of head-shields as in S. 

 lineatn, but with the snout somewhat less wedge-shaped. No free 

 fore limbs, but there is a short longitudinal groove, in the upper 

 end of which a minute tubercle (the first indication of an external 

 limb) is visible; hind limb as long as the head, terminating in 

 a single longish toe. Body surrounded by twenty series of scales. 

 Coloration nearly uniform, pale olive ; four very indistinct stripes 

 of minute blackish dots along the dorsal series of scales. 



Six inches long. Champion Bay. 



28. (Edura marmorata (Gray). 

 Port Essington, New South Wales (Krefft, 52). 



29. (Edura 7'hombifera (Gray). 

 IPhyllcdactylus Lesueurii, D. & B. 



New South Wales (KrefFt). 



30. Strophura spinifjera (Gray) . 



Houtman's Abrolhos, Champion Bay, South Australia (Kreflft, 

 42). 



31. Diplodactylus vittatus (Gray). 



Champion Bay, New South Wales. 



32. Diplodactylus ornatus (Gray) . 



Houtman's Abrolhos, New South Wales, through Mr. Krefft 

 (114, 518). 



33. Diplodactylus marmoratus (Gray). 



Houtman's Abrolhos, Freeman tie. Champion Bay. 



34. Diplodactylus ocellatus (Gray). 

 Dijjlodactylus bilineatus (Gray). 

 Houtman's Abrolhos, Champion Bay. 



35. Diplodactylus poly ophthalmus, sp. n. 

 Allied to D. ocellatus (Gray), but with much smaller scales, 

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