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body being surrounded by twenty-six series (in H. decresiensis 
by eighteen or twenty). Also the toes are more developed, the 
anterior as well as the posterior being conspicuously longer than 
the eye. Posterior frontals well developed. Seventy-two scales 
in a series between the axils of the fore and hind limbs. 
South Australia. 4 inches long (Krefft, 48). 
-26. Chelomeles quadrilineatus (D. & B.). 
Houtman’s Abrolhos, Swan River. 
27. Soridia miopus, sp. n. 
Form of the head and arrangement of head-shields as in S. 
lineata, but with the snout somewhat less wedge-shaped. No free 
fore limbs, but there is a short longitudinal groove, in the upper 
end of which a minute tubercle (the first indication of an external 
limb) is visible; hind limb as long as the head, terminating in 
a single longish toe. Body surrounded by twenty series of scales. 
Coloration nearly uniform, pale olive; four very indistinct stripes 
of minute blackish dots along the dorsal series of scales. 
Six inches long. Champion Bay. 
28. Cidura marmorata (Gray). 
Port Essington, New South Wales (Krefft, 52). 
29. Cidura rhombifera (Gray). 
?Phylicdactylus Lesueurti, D. & B. 
New South Wales (Krefft). 
: 30. Strophura spinigera (Gray). 
Houtman’s Abrolhos, Champion Bay, South Australia ( Krefft, 
81. Diplodactylus vitiatus (Gray). 
| Champion Bay, New South Wales. 
32. Diplodactylus ornatus (Gray). 
Houtman’s Abrolhos, New South Wales, through Mr. Krefft 
(114, 518). 
33. Diplodactylus marmoratus (Gray). 
Houtman’s Abrolhos, Freemantle, Champion Bay. 
34, Diplodactylus ocellatus (Gray). 
Diplodactylus bilineatus (Gray). 
Houtman’s Abrolhos, Champion Bay. 
35. Diplodactylus polyophthalmus, sp. n. 
Allied to D. ocellatus (Gray), but with much smaller scales, 
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