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Lygosoma bipes, Fisher. 

 A single specimen of this little lizard, which appears to be 

 scarce in collections, was obtained in the Barrow Range. It 

 agrees exactly with the description in the " British Museum 

 Catalogue." 



Total length ... ... ... ... 97 nnn. 



Head ... ... ... ... ... 5 " 



Body 47 " 



Tail 4.5 " 



Width of head 3 " 



Length of hindliml) ... ... ... 10 " 



Ablepiiords Gkeyi, Gray. 

 A single specimen ; near Camp 9 (Everard llange). 



Order Ophidia. 



Typliloj)s sp. — A small specimen of a species of 2'ypliJops wa.s 

 collected in the Fraser Ranges, the specific name of which we 

 are not yet in a position to determine. 



PSEUDECHYS AUSTRALIS. 



Between the Fraser Range and Yilgarn ; tw o skins in spirit, 

 each about six feet long. 



Vermicella fasciata, spec nor. PL VT., figs. 4 and 4o. 



Near the Barrow Range ; one specimen. 



Scales in seventeen rows; abdominal plates 145-146; two 

 anal plates ; subcaudal plates in two rows of twenty-seven each. 

 Body of moderate length (12-5 inch), nearly cylindrical; the tail 

 short (11 inch), terminating in a blunt conical scale. Head very 

 short (0'30 inch long), not distinct from trunk. Rostral shield 

 large, obtusely angular posteriorly ; nostrils elongate, piercing 

 the middle of a rhomboidal nasal shield. Anterior frontals quad- 

 rangular, forming sutures with the nasals on the outer margin ; 

 posterior frontals hexagonal, also forming sutures with the nasals 

 as^ well as with the second and third labial shields ; vertical 

 shield hexagonal, nearly as broad as long, very obtusely angular 

 anteriorly and nearly rectangular posteriorly. Supra-oculars 

 large, pentagonal anteriorly ; one anterior and two posterior 

 oculars. Occipital shields large, pentagonal or hexagonal, 

 broader in front than behind. Three temporal shields, of which 

 the first is the largest and is in contact with the posterior 

 oculars, and also with the fifth and sixth labials. Six upper 

 labials, the third and fourth reachiiTg the margin of the eye, the 

 last the largest. Seven lower labials, the first elongate and 

 forming a long suture behind the triangular mental shield ; tlie 

 second small, and the fourth the largest. 



