10. OTMNODACTYLTTS. 



Fore limb 36 millim. 



Hind limb 43 „ 



TaU 55 .. 



49 



Australia. 



a-h,c. cj,5,&hgr. 



d. S- 



e. Hgr. 

 /•Hgr. 



g. S , skeleton. 



Australia. 

 Australia. 

 Sydney. 



Champion Bay, N.W. 

 Australia. 



G. Krefft, Esq. 

 Mr. Duboulay [C.]. 



37. Gynmodactylus platurus. 



PbyUurus platurus, Gh-ai/, Cat. p. 176. 

 PbyUurus inermis, Cfray, I. c. 

 Lacerta platura, White, Journ. If. S. Wales, p. 246, pi. — . fig. 2 ; 



Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. p. 247. 

 Stellio pbyUurus, Schneid. Awjph. Phys, ii. p. 31. 



platurus, Daud. jRept. iv. p. 24. 



Agama platyura, Merr. Syst. Amph. p. 51. 



discosura, Merr. I. e. 



Phyllurus platurus, Mtzing. N. Class. Sept. p. 47 ; ChiArin, lorn,. JR. 



A., Rept. pi. xIt. iig. 1 ; Ch'ay, Zool. Erd>. 8f Terror, pL zviii 



fig. 8 ; Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Serp. p. 303. 

 cuvieri, Bory de St. Vim;. Biet. Hist. Nat. vii. p. 183, pi, — , 



fig. 2. 

 Gymnodactylus platyurus, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 144. 

 Oyrtodactylus platura, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 52. 

 Gymnodactylus ptyllurus. Bum. Sr Bibr. iii. p. 428. 

 Gonyodactylus (PhyUurus) platurus, Fitz. Syst. JRept. p, 92. 

 PhyUurus mermis, Gfray, Zool. JEreb. Sr Terror, pL xvii. fig. 1. 



Head large, much depressed, elongate triangular, very distiact 

 from neck ; derm of the head more or less confluent with cranial 

 ossification; snout measuring once and two thirds to once and 

 three fourths the diameter of the orbit, much longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opeidng ; forehead and loreal 

 region slightly concave ; ear-opening elliptical, vertical, not quite 

 half the diameter of the eye. Body moderate. Limbs long ; digits 

 strong, subcylindrioal at the base, compressed in their distal portion. 

 Head covered with smaU granules, intermixed with conical, spinose 

 tubercles ; rostral subquadrangular, three times as broad as high, 

 generally with median cleft above ; nostril directed posteriorly, 

 nearly always separated from the rostral and first labial; labials 

 small, thirteen to sixteen upper and eleven to thirteen lower; 

 mental broadly trapezoid ; no chin-shields. Body and Umbs 

 covered above with small granules, intermixed with conical more 

 or less spiaose tubercles ; beUy covered with flat granules. TaU 

 short, depressed, very broad, leaf-like, contracted at the base, 

 attenuated at the tip ; when intact, this organ is studded above with 



