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Carter, who has laboured so successfully iu extending our knowledge 
of many obscure Indian animals and plants. 
Mr. Carter observes, ‘The two Lizards of a lavender or light lead- 
colour, with nearly invisible brown spots or lines, were caught in the 
island of Massera, which is about forty miles long, barren, and situated 
close to the shore of the south-east coast of Arabia, towards its 
easternmost end. 
“The tail of one has dropped off. ‘To the best of my recollection, 
it was not bushy or crested, like that of the one which remains on; 
and that at the time made me think the latter was the male, and the 
other the female of the species. 
‘It is just possible they may be new; for Massera is little known, 
and I think we (the surveying people) were the first white men who 
were ever on the island.” 
Most probably the tail of the second specimen, which was lost, 
might have been reproduced, and thus without the lateral fringe. 
“The channel on the inner side of the island swarms with the 
Edible and Hawk’s-bill or Turtle-shell Turtle; and the island is be- 
strewn with the bones of the former: for the inhabitants are all mere 
brutes (Anthropophagi and Ichthyophagi).” 
This genus of Geckotide has many characters in common with 
the Agamide. Like Hublepharis it has a large circular pupil to the 
eye, and in this respect they form together an aberrant group of the 
family. In both these genera the pupil is large as well as circular. 
It is also peculiar, among the Geckoids, for the seales being all of a 
uniform size and character ; but this is found in a few other species, 
such as Boltanea sublevis, where the minute sublenticular scales 
are often almost entirely wanting. 
“The Prickly-tailed Lizard, of a light-brown colour, was caught — 
in or close to the town of Makulla, a port on the south-east coast of 
Arabia. 
“I regard it as the young of a species just like it, which grows ~ 
to a foot or more in length, on the coast mentioned.” , 
This is very nearly allied to Uromastiz spinipes ; but unfortunately 
the specimen is too young and not in a sufliciently good condition — 
to determine if it is absolutely the same. 
OBSERVATIONS ON AUSTRALIAN TREE-FROGS LIVING IN THE 
Socitety’s MenaGerie. By Dr. A. GUNTHER. 
The only Australian Batrachian which, to my knowledge, has 
until lately been exhibited in the Society’s menagerie is Pelodryas 
ceruleus (Hyla cerulea, White), a specimen of which, almost 
unobserved, lived there for two or three years. In the beginning of — 
the spring of this year, however, an opportunity was taken of pro- 
curing eight specimens, which were imported by a collector from New 
South Wales, and which belonged to four species, viz. to Pelodryas 
ceruleus, Hyla Peroni, Hyla Krefftii, and to an apparently unde-— 
scribed form, which we shall name Hyla phyllochroa. Having had 
an opportunity of observing these for some time in the Gardens in the ~ 
