APPENDIX, 501 



Grammatophora. 



The Crested Grammatophore. Grammatophora cristata. 



Olive ; head black varied, beneath pale ; throat, chest and 

 under side of the thighs black ; tail black-ringed ; scales rather 

 irregular, with a central and two lateral series of compressed 

 keeled scales ; nape with a crest of compressed elevated distant 

 scales ; sides of the neck with scattered single elongated conical 

 spines ; tail tapering, with uniform keeled scales, keeled above, 

 rather dilated at the base, with indistinct cross series of rather 

 larger scales. 



Inhab. W. Australia. 



The Netted Grammatophore. Grammatophora reticulata. 

 Grammatophora Becresii, Gray, Grey's Trav. Austr. ii,, not 

 Dum. et Bib. 



Black, yellow-spotted and varied, beneath grey, vermiculated 

 with blackish ; tail black-ringed ; back and nape with a central 

 series of larger keeled scales, with distant cross series of similar 

 scales ; sides of the nape and parotids with series of rather larger 

 keeled scales ; scales of the back small, subequal ; tail tapering, 

 with regular nearly equal keeled scales, and 1 or 2 cross bands of 

 larger scales at the base. 



Inhab. W. AustraUa. 



The Yellow-spotted Grammatophore. Grammatophora or- 



NATA. 



Black ; the back \vith a series of large yellow spots, smaller on 

 the sides ; the tail and limbs yellow-banded, beneath yellow ; the 

 throat black-dotted ; chest blackish ; nape with a shght scaly 

 crest ; ears with a few tubercular scales in front ; neck with 3 or 

 4 groups of short tubercular scales on each side ; the scales small, 

 ovate, imbricate, keeled, of the middle of the back rather larger, 

 and with a few rather larger (white) ones scattered on the sides ; 

 nostril near the front edge of the orbit. 



Inhab. W. Australia. 



