tae Was 
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12. Rhodona punctato-vitiata, sp. n. 
Nasals forming together a broadish suture ; upper labials six; 
frontal triangular, twice as large as the central occipital. Body 
surrounded by seventeen longit. series of scales; eighty-two 
scales in a longit. series between the axils of the fore and 
hind limbs. Two large preanal scales. Ear-opening small, 
covered with scales. Fore limb minute, tapering, terminating 
in a straight minute claw, with scarcely an indication of a second 
claw. Two toes behind, the outer more than twice as long as 
the inner. Each scale on the upperside with a black dot, the 
dots forming six or eight longit. lines. 
Queensland. 5 inches long. 
18. Anomalopus Verreauau (Dum.). 
Brisbane, Clarence River, New South Wales. Specimens 
from the jast two localities through Mr. Krefft. 
The eyelid is scaly, as observed by Prof. Peters in ‘ Monatsber. 
Ak. Wiss. Berl.’ 1867, p. 24. All our specimens are distin- 
guished by the light occipital cross band, which is pure white 
in young examples, but only faintly marked in adults of twelve 
‘inches in length. 
14. Hinulia fasciolata, sp. n. 
Har-opening small, rounded, and not denticulated in front. Na- 
sals separated by the prefrontal, which is of a triangular shape. 
Postoccipitals forming a suture together behind the central 
occipital, which is a little smaller than the preoccipitals. Body 
surrounded by thirty-three longit. series of scales, the vertebral 
scales being scarcely larger than the others; there are fifty 
scales in a longit. series between the axils of the fore and hind 
limbs. Subcaudal scales broad. Lach series of scales on the 
upperside of the tail with a low ridge. Six preeanal scales, the 
central pair being much the largest. Limbs rather. feeble; tail 
of moderate length, but very thick. Body with narrow, black, 
rather irregular cross bands, some of them obliquely descending 
forwards. 
Rockhampton, Port Curtis. 8 inches long. 
15. Hinulia branchialis, sp. u. 
Ear-opening small, rounded, and not denticulated in front. 
Nasals forming together a suture ; the central occipital separating 
entirely the postoccipitals. Body surrounded by twenty-four 
longit. series of scales, of which the vertebral pair is broadest; 
there are fifty scales in a longit. series between the axils of the 
fore and hind limbs. Subcaudal scales broad. Four preanal 
scales, the central pair largest. Limbs rather feeble; tail of 
