_ 1. BGERNIA. 137 
subequal. The adpressed limbs fail to meet. Digits short. Tail 
cylindrical, as long as head and body; upper caudal scales keeled, 
like the dorsals, A dark brown vertebral band, occupying the 
median pair of scales, separated from the paler brown of the sides 
by a yellowish-brown dorso-lateral band; lower surfaces yellowish, 
throat with a few blackish spots. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 413 Fore limb ........ 55 
WCAG tac ara coers ees aor 43 Hind limb........ 67 
Width of head .... 38 Pah icy say sarees 200 
Body scabs eee ee 170 
Queensland. 
a. Ad. Rockhampton. 
4. Egernia major. 
Tropidolepisma major, Gray, Cat. p. 107. 
Tropidolepisma major, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr., Rept. pl. xiv.; 
A, Dum. Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 176. 
richardi, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 787. 
Head short. A curved groove behind the nostril; frontonasal in 
contact with the rostral; prefrontals forming a median suture ; 
frontal not twice as long as broad, larger than the interparietal; 
five supraoculars, second largest; ten to twelve supraciliaries ; fifth 
and sixth upper labials below the eye, from which they are sepa- 
rated by a series of small infraoculars; three large temporals ; three 
pairs of nuchals. TEar-opening as large as the eye-opening, with 
three large projecting lobules. 28 to 32 scales round the middle of 
the body ; dorsals largest, and with three or four more or less strong 
keels. The adpressed limbs slightly overlap. Digits rather short. 
Tail cylindrical, about once and a half the length of head and body ; 
upper caudal scales keeled like the dorsals. Olive-brown above, with 
a more or less distinct lighter dorso-lateral band ; frequently a black 
lateral band; back with more or less distinct longitudinal blackish 
streaks or series of small spots; sides sometimes dotted with yel- 
lowish ; lower surfaces yellowish. 
millim millim 
Total length ...... 470 Fore limb........ 55 
Gad 2 asses saints. oat 40 Hind limb ....... 71 
Width of head .... 32 Wall G1 Giaueeanws 270 
Body ..........05 160 
North-eastern Australia. 
a, Ad., stuffed. Australia. (Type.) 
db. Ad., stuffed. Australia. 
ce, Her. Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
d-e, f. Ad. Murray Island. Rev. 8. Macfarlane tes 
g. Ad. Islands of Torres Straits, | Rev. 8S. Macfarlane [C. ]. 
