22. TTMPAITOCRTPXIS. 23. DIPOROPHORA. 393 



Fore limb 23 millim. 



Hind limb 33 „ 



Tail 64 „ 



South Australia. 



a-h. c? $ . South Australia. G-. Kreffl, Esq. [P.]. 



c. S • Kangaroo Island. 



2. Tympanocryptis cephalus. (Plate XXXT. fig. 1.) 



Tympanocryptis cephalus, CHinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, 

 p. 52. 



Diflfers from the preceding in the following characters : — Nostril 

 much nearer the eye than the tip of the snout ; upper head-scales 

 larger, less strongly keeled ; large flat tubercles on the occiput. 

 Dorsal scales rather feebly keeled, the enlarged ones strongly 

 mueronate and spinose. Brown above, with more or less indistinct 

 darker cross bands on the body and limbs, the one across the neck 

 being darkest; tail with dark bars separated by narrow light 

 interspaces. 



Total length 133 miUim. 



Head 17 



Width of head 15 



Body 45 



Fore limb 29 



Hind limb 40 



Tail 71 



North-west Australia. 

 a-h. 2 & yg. Nicol Bay. Mr. Duboulay [C.]. (Types.) 



23. DIPOROPHORA. 



Diporophora, Oray, Zool. Misc. p. 63, and Cat. Liz. p. 250. 

 Gindalia, Gray, Cat. p. 246. 

 Calotella, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 28. 



Tympanum distinct. Body slightly depressed. No dorsal crest. 

 No gular sac ; gular fold present or absent. Tail round. One or 

 two praeanal pores on each side, sometimes absent in the female ; 

 no femoral pores. 



Australia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



No transverse gular fold 1. bilineata, p. 394. 



A gular fold; tail twice as long as head and 



body 2. australis, p. 394. 



A gular fold; tail slightly longer than head 



and body 3. bennettii, p. 395. 



