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No femoral and anal pores. 



Most of the above specimens of tliis very agile lizard, wliieli 

 lives in sandy places, were caught by the blacks, who kill tliem 

 witli a wooden missile called a waddy. 



Ampiiibolurus pictus, Feter.i. 

 Three specimens ; between Fraser Range and Southern Cross, 

 and between Fraser Range and Victoria Springs. 



Spechnen A (total length) ^ 170 mm. 



Specnnen B " " I5q ^ 



Ground-colour of back reddish-brown ; a light-coloured verte- 

 bral line from neck to root of tail ; the back with black and 

 whitish spots, which form alternate irregular cross-bars: tail 

 whitisli with irregular broad transverse bands. Under-surface 

 cream-coloured, specimen A having the median part of the throat 

 and chest blackish ; specimen B without any markinog Sp A 

 with an uninterrupted series of femoral pores, which are absent 

 in sp. o. 



The third .specimen, viz., that from the country between Queen 

 Victoria Sp-mg and Fraser Range, greatly resembles sp. B in 

 size and colour. '■ 



AxMPHIBOLURDS RETICULATUS, Gray. 



Four specimens ; near Queen Victoria Sprino- 

 General aspect, stout. Head very short. *" Nostril piercin<. 

 the canthus rostralis and directed upwards ; canthus rostralis 

 Diunt. A low nuchal crest indicated by about eight or nine 

 arge conical spines. The enlarged, flat, obtusely-keeled scales 

 which are scattered over the back are whitish and arranged in 

 groups three or four scales generally forming the centre of a 

 light brownish-coloured spot; these spots are enclosed by a 

 blackish reticulation. The specimens agree in all essential details 

 with the description of this species given by Boulenger, but 

 TZl Pf '^.'^^"S ^ '^^^ller number of pne-anal and femoral 

 pores, and having the i^entral scales feebly keeled. 



Sp 



Sp. B. 



Sp. C. 



Sp. D. Total length, K 



Total length, 11.5 mm.; tail injured; number of pores 

 not ascertainable on account of bad preservation 



Total length, 110 mm.; twenty prre-anal and femoral 

 pores. 



Total length, 138 mm. ; twenty prre-anal and femoral 

 pores. 



oo mm. 



twenty-eight pric-anal and 



femoral pores. 

 The number of pores, as stated by Boulenger, in 

 Museum specimens are from thirty -hve to forty -five. 



the British 



