1. EGERNIA. 137 



suhequal. The fidprcsscd limbs fail to meet. Digits short. Tail 

 CN'liiidricaU as loug as head and body ; upper caudal scales keeled, 

 like the dorsals. A dark browu vertebral band, occupying the 

 median pair of scales, separated from the paler brown of the sides 

 by a yelh)wish-brown dorso-latcral band; lower surfaces j-ellowish, 

 throat with a few blackish spots. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 413 Fore limb 55 



Read 43 Hind Hmb 67 



Width of head .... 38 Tail 200 



Body 170 



Queensland. 



a. Ad. Rockhampton. 



4, Egernia major. 



Tropidolepisnia major, Grai/, Cat. p. 107. 

 Tropidolepisma major, Grai/, Zool. Ereb. 8f Terr., Eept. pi. xiv. ; 



A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Hept. p. 170. 

 richardi, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 787. 



Head short. A curved groove behind the nostril ; frontonasal in 

 contact with the rostral ; praefrontals forming a median suture ; 

 frontal not twice as long as broad, larger than the interparietal ; 

 five supraoculars, second largest ; ten to twelve supraciliaries ; fifth. 

 and sixth upper labials below the eye, from which tbey are sepa- 

 rated by a series of small infraoculars ; three large temporals ; three 

 pairs of nuchals. Ear-opening as large as the eye-opening, with 

 three large projecting lobules. 2S to 32 scales round the middle of 

 the body ; dorsals largest, and with three or four more or less strong 

 keels. The adpresscd limbs slightly overlap. Digits rather short. 

 Tail cylindrical, about once and a half the length of head and body ; 

 upper caudal scales keeled like the dorsals. Olive-brown above, with 

 a more or less distinct lighter dorso-lateral band ; frequently a black 

 lateral band ; back with more or less distinct longitudinal blackish 

 streaks or series of small spots ; sides sometimes dotted with yel- 

 lowish ; lower surfaces yellowish. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 470 Fore limb 55 



Head 40 Hind limb 71 



Width of head 32 Tail 270 



Body 160 



North-eastern Australia. 



a. Ad., stuffed. Australia. (Type.) 



h. Ad., stuffed. Australia. 



c. Hgr. Australia. G. Ki-efft, Esq. [P.]. 



d--e,f. Ad. Murray Island. Rev. S. Macfarlane 



9- Ad. Islands of Torres Straits, Rev. S, Macfarlane 



[c.j. 



