292 AeAHiD^. 



Fore limb 77 millim. 



Hind limb 113 „ 



Tail (end broken) 235 „ 



East-Indian archipelago, 

 a. c? . East-Indian archipelago. Dr. Bleeker. (Type.) 



14. Gonyocephalns spinipes. 



Lophyrus spinipes, A. Dum. Cat. MSth. Rept. p. 90, and Arch. Mus. 

 viii. p. 668. 



Snout slightly longer than the diameter of the orbit; canthus 

 rostralis and supraciliary edge angular, projecting ; tympanum as 

 large as the eye-opening ; occiput concave ; upper head-scales small, 

 subequal, keeled ; fourteen or fifteen upper and as many lower 

 labials. Gular sac rather small, with serrated anterior edge ; gular 

 scales strongly keeled, smaller than ventrals, intermixed with a few 

 enlarged ones. Iv^uchal and dorsal crests subcontinuous ; the former 

 composed of triangular spines, the longest of which do not quite 

 equal the vertical diameter of the tympanum, inserted on a fold of 

 the skin ; dorsal crest, a denticulation fonned of triangular scales. 

 Dorsal scales small, unequal, keeled, intermixed with irregularly 

 scattered, enlarged, strongly keeled mucronate ones ; the points of 

 the scales directed upwards and backwards ; ventral scales rather 

 small, strongly keeled. Limbs above with unequal keeled scales, 

 intermixed with strongly enlarged mucronate ones; fourth finger 

 longer than third ; the adpressed hind Umb reaches the anterior 

 border of the orbit or the tip of the snout. Tail compressed, at the 

 base with a serrated upper edge ; caudal scales strongly keeled, 

 largest inferiorly ; tail twice as long as head and body. Brown or 

 dark olive above, with indistinct darker spots ; a more or less distinct 

 white line along the hind side of the thigh. 



Total length 368 millim. 



Head 39 „ 



Width of head 27 „ 



Body 84 „ 



Fore limb 65 „ 



Hind limb 105 „ 



Tail 245 „ 



Queensland. 



a. (S . Queensland. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



b-c. c? . Richmond Eiver. A. P. Godwin, Esq. [C.]. 



15. Gonyocephalns snbcristatus. 



Tiaris subcristata, Myth, Journ. As. iSoc. Beng. xxix. 1861, p. 109 ; 

 Stoliczka, Journ. As. iSoc. Beng. xxxix. ] 870, p. 180, and xh. 1872. 

 p. 116. 



