1074 MISS JOAN B. PROCTER, ON NKW AND RAUE REPTILES 



III.— SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



In 1921 Prof. Wood- Jones made a very valuable collection of 

 lizards in ISTuyb's Archipelago and the Investigator Group. 

 These lizards, which he presented to the Museum, were mostly 

 rare skinks, amongst them a new species — Lygosoimi {JTomolepida) 

 wood-jonesi. The description of the latter, with notes on th^t 

 collection, appear elsewhere *. This year Prof. Wood-Jones has 

 sent ns a supplementary collection mostly from the const of the 

 mainland, including a new Amphiholurus and several rare geckos 

 and skinks. Only species of special interest in this second 

 collection will be noted here. 



LAOERTILIA. 



GECKONIDiR. 



Heteronota niNOEi Gray. 



Whilst working at Pi'of. Wood-Jones's specimens I compared 

 our series of //. biuoei and derbiana Gray, and came to the con- 

 clusion that they cannot be maintained as distinct species. The 

 arrangement of the dorsal tubercles is subject to great individual 

 variation, the derhiana form completely intergrading with that 

 proper to hinoei. 



DiPLODACTYLUS TESSELLATUS Gray. 



There are but two specimens already in the Museum's col- 

 lection. Prof. Wood-Jones obtained another on a journey from 

 Hergath Springs, N.E., to Kilalpaninnn, Cooper's Creek. Unfor- 

 tunately all three are males. 



Peropus varieqatus Dum. ot liibr. 



Prof. Wood- Jones's specimens would formerly have been called 

 Gehyra austrcdis, but Fiy has pointed out t that the genus should 

 be Peropus Wiegm., and series of specimens now show that 

 cmstralis intergrades with variegatus. 



Ampiiibolurus imbricatus Pehers. 



Prof, Wood- Jones collected one female at Berri, Hiver Murray. 

 Its scales are extremely lanceolate and the characteristic markings 

 are indistinct. The Museum until now had only two specimens 

 of this very rai'e species — both females — so that in this case the 

 revei-se of the state of things noted under Dij^lodactylus tessellatus 

 has occurred, and we have now three females of A, imbricatus 

 and no males, and three males of D. tessellatus aiid no females. 



* Proctor, "Flora and Fauna of Nuyt's Arcliijielago and the Investigator Group, 

 No, 6 — Lizards." Trans. Roy. Soc. S, Australia, 192.). 

 t Fry, Roc. W Aust. Mus. i. 19M., p, 178, 



