AND JJATR.VCIIIAKS F.UOM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 



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Ampiiibolurus fionni, sp. n. ' 



Habit slender, limbs very long. 



Head moderate ; snout as long as tlie orbit, with strongly- 

 marked cantlms rostralis and concave loreal region ; nostril 

 nenrer the eye than tip of snout, situated below the canthus edge; 

 tympanum as Inrge as eye-opening; upper head-scales tubercular, 

 keeled on the snout, smallest on the supraocular region. Sides 

 of neck strongly plicate ; n, fold set with small spines from the 

 angle of the mouth to the shouldei*, others below the eye and 

 above the tympanum, and one in the form of a low nuchal 



Text-fiffure 4. 



irciul of Am/pMholvrtisfioiini, sp. ii. 

 a. laternl view ; h. dorsal view ; c. ventral 



crest, flanked by a pair reaching from the occiput to the shoulders. 

 Gular scales minute. Body covered with small keeled scales, 

 which are minute on the sides and enlarged on the vertebral 

 region. No enlarged ones scattered on the sides. Ventral 

 scales small, smooth, the ones inider the fore-arm and under the 

 tibia keeled. Caudal scales small, strongly keeled. 



Limbs very long, the fourth toe I'caching to the nostril wlien 

 the hind-limb is adpressed, scales on the limbs slightly enlarged, 

 strongly keeled. Digits long, distinctly fringed. About 40 

 femoral pores, slightly interrupted in the middle. Tail slender; 

 depressed at the base ; twice length of head and body. 



