CATALOGUE of AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS. 



By F. R. ZIETZ, S.A. Mlsklm. 



The object of this catalngue is to l)ring together under one cover 

 references to all the described species of Australian lizards. The only 

 previous publications that thus dealt with the subject as restricted to 

 Australia, are those liy Gray in (.jrey's Travels in Australia, 1841, and 

 Lizards of Australia and N. Zealand, 1867. Lucas and Frost listed the 

 Australian lizards, but be} ond tlie names of the species and th(5se of the 

 authors, no references were sujjplied. The catalogues by Gra_\' (1845) and 

 Jioulenger (1885-87) dealt with the lizards of the world, and the bulk of their 

 contents is therefore not recpiired by Australian workers : these jiublications, 

 moreijver, are also out of date. 



The scope of the present catalogue ma}- be thus defined : To record all 

 the .Australian species : U) sujjplv a reference tc) the original descrijjtions and 

 to include the principal svnonvms added since the publication of the 2nd 

 editiim df the British Museum Catalogue (1885-87). and, lastly, to furnish a 

 bibliography of the subject. 



No new species is described but it has been found necessary to supply 

 names to forms standing as Lvfjcsniiiii ( ftctcropiis ) rcrtcbralis De Vis and 

 I yi/osdiiia (NlKulniia) tctradactylinii Lucas and Frost, which, being preoccupied, 

 are changed to L. vaitci and L. frnsti, respectixely. The classification is based 

 on that of Boulenger's catalogue, and with the exception of two species, of which 

 the descriirtions are not available ti) the compiler, all since described have been 

 placed according to their relati\-e characters. -^ 



Priority has been observed, and il ma\- be noted that species ascribed 

 to White were described by Shaw, to whom thev are here credited. 



In conclusion I wish to ex]3ress my indebtedness to the Museum Director 

 for ins kind assistance in respect to nomenclature in tracing some of the early 

 references, as well as for the use of his \aluable ])ri\ate library. 



The geographical range of the several species, where not printed in full, is 

 indicated by the following letters: 



C.A. Central Australia N.W.A. 



N.G. New Guinea, Q. 



N.Q. North Queensland T. 



N.S.W. New .South Wales V. 



N.T. Northern Territorv \\\A. 



[Owing to the circumstance that the linotyr.e machine by which this paper is set 

 is not pro\ ided with accented letters or diaereses, such names and words as Dumeril, 

 ("junther (Guenther), and Siidwest have, unfortunately, had to be set as m English. 

 In order to ])ro\ide for accented letters this paragraph has been set by hand. — Ed.] 



North-west Australia 



Queensland 



Tasmania 



Victoria 



Western Australia 



