2. CRrPTODELMA. 3. DKLMA. 243 



seven-sided, the antero-lateral sides very short, in contact with the 

 upper loreal ; frontal much smaller than the prsefrontal or parietals, 

 broader than long, seven-sided ; parietals subpentagonal ; two large 

 supraorbitals ; four small plates in a row between the eye and the 

 nasal ; six upper labials, separated from the orbit by a row of 

 scales ; mental trapezoid ; four or five lower labials, the two first 

 much dilated vertically. Eighteen longitudinal series of scales 

 round the middle of the body. The enlarged ventral scales twice 

 as broad as long, in 97 to 109 pairs. Two enlarged anal scales and 

 a row of four scales between the latter and the perforated prseanal 

 scales. Brown above, with a darker line along each series of 

 scales; occipital region yellowish, edgod behind with a blackish 

 band ; lower surfaces yellowish. 



Head 13 miUim. 



Width of head 9-5 „ 



Body 185 „ 



Tail 175 „ 



Hind limb . . 5 „ 



New South Wales. 



a-b. Ad. & hgr. Peak Downs. Godeffroy Museum. I ^m x 



c. Ad. Gayndah. Godeffroy Museum, j '^ ^P ■-' 



3. DELMA. 



Delma, Gray, Zool, Misc. p. 14, and Cat. p. 68. 



Nisara, Gray, Liz. Austr. p. 3. 



Pseudodelma, Fischer, Arch.f. Nat. xlviii. 1882, p. 286. 



Parietal bones distinct. Tongue slightly nicked at the tip, with 

 rows of large round papiUse inferiorly. Ear exposed. Rudiments 

 of hind limbs externally. Head with large symmetrical plates. 

 Scales smooth, cycloid hexagonal, imbricate, the two median series 

 on the belly and the median series under the tail transversely 

 enlarged, hexagonal. No prseanal pores. 



Australia. 



1. Delma fraseri. 



Delma fraseri, Gray, Cat. p. 68. 

 Delma fraseri, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 14, and in Grey''s Trav. Austral. 



ii. p. 427, pi. iv. tig. 3 ; Gunth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 1873, 



p. 145. 



grayii. Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. pi. Ixxvi. fig. 2. 



molleri, Liltken, Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p. 296, pi. i. fig. 2. 



Nisara grayii. Gray, Liz. Austr. p. 3. 



Snout not prominent, as long as the distance between the orbit 

 and the ear-opening ; can thus rostralis obtuse ; eye with distinct 

 circular scaly lid ; ear-opening elliptical, oblique, its diameter equal 

 to that of the eye. TaU, when intact, three or four times as long 

 as the body. The rudimentary hind limbs measure about the 



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