2. CRYPTODELMA, 



Oryptodelma, Fischer, Arch.f. Nat. xlviii. 1882, p. 289. 



Parietal bones distinct. Tongue slightly nicked at the tip, with 

 rows of large round papillae inferiorly. Ear exposed. Rudiments 

 of hind limbs externally. Head with large symmetrical plates. 

 Scales smooth, cycloid-hexagonal, imbricate, the two median series 

 on the beUy and the median series under the tail transversely 

 enlarged, hexagonal. Praeanal pores. 



Australia. 



1. Cryptodelma nigriceps. 



Oryptodelma nigriceps, Mscher, I. c. p. 290, pi. xvi. figs. 5-9. 



Tail as long as the head and body. Eleven praeanal pores. 

 Rostral broad, low ; nostril pierced between the first labial and 

 two nasals, the anterior of which is largest and forms a suture with 

 its feUow on the snout ; preefrontal broken up in the unique speci- 

 men, separated from the nasals by two pairs of transverse plates ; 

 parietals narrow, elongate ; supraorbitals two, rather small ; loreal 

 region with numerous small plates, about six in a row between the 

 eye and the nasal ; seven upper labials, separated from the orbit by 

 a row of scales ; mental very large ; eight lower labials, first verti- 

 cally enlarged. Twenty-six or twenty-eight longitudinal series of 

 scales round the body. Two large anal scales ; four rows of small 

 scales between the latter and the perforated prseanal scales. Elesh- 

 coloured above, the head black. 



The single young specimen measures, from snout to vent, 64 

 millim., tail 60 miUim. 



Nicol Bay, West Australia. 



2. Cryptodelma orientalis. (Plate XIX.) 

 Delma orientalis, Oilnth. Journ. Mus. Qodeffr. xii. 1876, p. 45. 



Snout not prominent, rounded, as long as the distance between 

 the orbit and the ear-opening ; canthus rostralis rounded ; eye small, 

 without distinct circular lid ; ear-opening small, suboval, oblique. 

 TaU as long as, or not very much longer than, the body. Rudi- 

 mentary hind limbs slightly developed, measuring hardly two thirds 

 the length of the snout, four prseanal pores. Rostral pentagonal, 

 about twice as broad as high ; nostril between the first labial and 

 two nasals, the anterior of which is largest and forms a suture with 

 its fellow on the snout ; a pair of fronto-nasals ; prasfrontal large. 



